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Book. ,LUk T^ 5 



THE HISTORY 



TWO ULSTER MANORS 

OF 

EINAGH, 

IN THE COUNTY OF TYRONE, 

AND 

COOLE, OTHERWISE MANOR ATKINSON, 

IN THE COUNTY OF FERMANAGH, 

AND or 

THEIR OWNERS. / 



BY 

THE EARL OF BEL I 




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PREFACE. 



I desire to say a few words as to the reasons which have 
induced me to publish this book. 

Its primary object no doubt is to form a record of family 
documents. The want of such a record has been a source 
of trouble and expense to me. 

Last year I had occasion, at the instance of my friend 
Dr. Reeves, the Dean of Armagh, who was making some 
researches into the topography of Fermanagh, to make a 
more systematic examination of my Fermanagh deeds than 
I had before done ; and it occurred to me that, in the 
absence of a County History, I might be able to compile 
from them a narrative which would not be devoid of 
interest, at least to a limited section of the public, especi- 
ally at this time, when attention is so much directed to the 
Irish Land Question. 

I have included a short account also of my Tyrone pro- 
iperty, which is in strictness my ancestral estate. In this 
case the materials in my possession were much more limited 
than in that of the Fermanagh property. By a curious 
coincidence, just about the same time, my friend, the Rev. 
Dr. Dixon, applied to me for some topographical information 
connected with a townland called Curr, but formeily 
Achorrow and Corballintacken. Dr. Dixon had himself, 
some twenty years ago, written some papers, which were 
printed in a periodical (published at Derby), called the 
Parish Magazine, on the history of his own and the 
adjoining parish ; in which my Tyrone estate is mainly 
situate. 

These papers have been placed at my disposal, and I have 
also to thank Dr. Dixon not only for affording me general 



IV 

assistance, but also for allowing me to print what was 
relevant to my purpose in his notes, and from amongst the 
extracts which he had made from various public records. 
This will be found in the appendix. With the exception of 
a short extract from Pynnar's Survey, and the Plantation 
Map of 1609, I am, I think, indebted to him for all my in- 
formation prior to 1672, excepting some matter in the 
appendix relating to Sir William Ussher, which I obtained 
from Sir Bernard Burke. Dr. Dixon has also compiled for 
me the list of denominations in the Great Proportion of 
Finagh, etc. ; (App. K.), with their equivalents. 

The Dean of Armagh has rendered me invaluable assis- 
tance, not only by his advice and in other ways which will 
be obvious to the reader, but also by undertaking the for- 
midable task of deciphering, copying, and translating, or 
making abstracts of, several ancient documents engrossed in 
" court hand," which I could not even read ; and by com- 
piling the list of denominations in the manor of Coole with 
their equivalents (App. R.) 

I am in a lesser degree indebted for assistance to the Lord 
Primate of All Ireland* (for a correct version of the Beres- 
ford Ghost story) ; to Sir Bernard Burke, Ulster King at 
Arms ; to Thomas French, esq., Assistant Librarian of 
Trinity College, Dublin; to the Rev. A. E. Auchinlech, of 
Car Colston, Notts ; and to the Yen. Charles Stack, D.D., 
Archdeacon of Clogher. 

The main authorities which I have had occasion to refer 
to (beyond my own documents), are the Plantation maps of 
1609 ; Harris's Hibernica, which includes Pynnar's Survey ; 
Sir John Davies' Tracts ; Harris's Life of King William III. ; 
Bishop M ant's History of the Church of Ireland ; Mr. 
Witherow's (Professor of Church History in Magee College, 
Londonderry) Work on the Defence of Derry and Ennis- 
kill en, the Irish Lords and Commons' Journals, the Lists 

* The Right Hon. and Most Kev. Marcus Gervais De la Poer Beresford. d.d.. 
Archbishop of Armagh, and Bishop of Clogher. 



of Members of the House of Commons, lately presented to 
Parliament, the "Constitution" newspaper, and Hansard's 
Debates. 

If some things which I have set down may appear trivial, 
I hope that it may be remembered how limited were my 
materials, for throwing light upon the characters or circum- 
stances of many of those individuals about whom I have 
had to write. 

As regards the legal documents which I have quoted, 
some, particularly of the earlier ones, have been given in 
full. Of the others, abstracts have been made, so, as far as 
lay in my power, to preserve the substance of them, 
whilst omitting unnecessary verbiage. In one case only, I 
think, (the Will of Mr. Galbraith Lowry) did I find an 
abstract ready to my hand, in the margin of the attested 
copy. 

The older documents were engrossed in a hand, rather 
puzzling to a layman ; and although they are on the whole 
in very good preservation, some words have proved beyond 
my powers of deciphering. 

For the sake of the reader, I have exercised a large dis- 
cretion in pointing such documents. I have to some 
extent preserved the ancient spelling, but not very strictly. 
Some abreviations of words, too, I have thought it better 
to write out in full, to avoid puzzling the reader, as they 
have puzzled me ; the more so as they are sometimes 
abbreviations of an obsolete form of spelling, e.g., pte and 
ptes, mean part and parts. 

Some authorities, including Dr. O'Donovan, have I under* 
stand fallen into the error of confounding the old half 
barony of Coole, county Fermanagh, with the modern 
barony of Coole, in the same county, in which is situate the 
Quarter Sessions town of Newtownbutler. The distinction 
between them, I have pointed out in Chapter VX, page 48. 



CONTENTS 



PART I. 
CHAPTER I. 

THE MANOR OF FINAGH, COUNTY TYRONE. 



Page 



Its early history — The Earl and Countess of Castlehaven — Sir 
Pierce Crosbye— Sir William Ussher and John Ussher — Hugh, 
Lord Glenawly, and his family, ....... 1 

CHAPTER II. 

JAMES, JOHN, AND ROBERT LOWRY, SEN., 1665-1729. 

Their families — Purchasers of Land — Robert Lowry's acquisition 
of the Manor of Finagh — His will, 16 

CHAPTER III. 

ROBERT LOWRY THE YOUNGER, 1729-1764 

His marriage settlement — He divides the advowson of Termonma- 
guirk with Viscount Tyrone — His second marriage — Elected 
m.p. for Strabane — His will — and death, 23 



CHAPTER IV. 

GALBRAITH LOWRY, SOMETIME LOWRY-CORRY, 1729-69. 

His marriage and children — Specimens of leases — His purchases of ' 
land — Cases and opinions of Mr. Anthony Malone and Mr. 
Grattan — Election memoranda, &c. — His will, .... 29 

CHAPTER V. 

ARMAR LOWRY CORRY, 1769-1779. 

The Gentleman's Recreations — His receipt for George Canning's 
Poems — His election to Parliament — The division on Pensions — 
His first marriage — Lady Margaret Corry — His sister Mary's 
death His mother's death, by which he united the family estates, 42 



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PART II. 
CHAPTER VI. 

MANOR COOLE, OTHERWISE MANOR ATKINSON, IN THE COUNTY 

FERMANAGH. 

Page 

Introductory, a.d. 1609-13, 48 



CHAPTER VII. 

CAPTAIN ROGER ATKINSON, 1602-41. 

His history — and patent of Castlecoole — Description of the estate 
— Fee-farm lease of Agharynagh to Zachary Rampayne — Xew 
patent on defective title — and license to alienate — Sale of Castle- 
coole and Shannath to Arthur Champion, 59 



CHAPTER Vffl. 

ARTHUR AND JOHN CHAMPION, AND HENRY GILBERT, 
A.D. 1640-1655. 

Murder of Arthur Champion — Deposition of his widow — She re- 
marries Henry Gilbert — Who conveys the estates to Emery Hill 
in trust — Sale of the Castlecoole Estates to John Corry, in 
1655, 98 



CHAPTER IX. 

JOHN CORRY, 1655-1681. 

His token — Receipt for the purchase money of Castlecoole — 
Defect in the title — Compromises, 103 

CHAPTER X. 

JAMES CORRY, 1681-1688. 

James Corry's marriage with Sarah Anketill — His family — His 
wife's early death — His purchases of land — Deed of settlement of 
1679 between his father and himself — His purchase of John 
Rampayne's interest in the fee-farm of Agharenagh — Further 
purchases of land — Proposed second marriage with Miss Lucia 
Mervyn, 113 



IX 



CHAPTER XL 

JAMES CORRY CONTINUED 1689-1690. 



Page 



Siege of Enmskillen — Burning of Castlecoole — Two grants to 
Captain Corry — one of them, of the manor of Inseloghgease, 

made but subsequently cancelled — Compensation to Captain 

Corry for his losses during the war defended, . . . .126 

CHAPTER XII. 

JAMES CORRY — CONTINUED — 169 1-1718. 

James Corry's second marriage — and subsequent separation from 
his wife — Appointed to be Colonel of Horse Militia — Elected 
m.p. for Fermanagh — Elected a Burgess of Enniskillen — 
Appointed a Deputy Governor of Fermanagh — Purchases an 
estate in county Longford — and property in Queen's-street, 
Dublin — Marriage of Rebecca Corry to Mr. Moutray — of John 
Corry to Sarah Leslie — His marriage settlement — Blank com- 
missions for Colonel Corry's regiment — Marriage of Elizabeth 
Corry and Mr. Auchinlech — The fire at Enniskillen — Colonel 
Corry appointed the Governor of Fermanagh — The Duke of 
Ormonde — Colonel Corry included in the Commission of Array 
— His Deerpark — Further purchase in Dublin — Family deeds — 
His will — and death, 141 

CHAPTER XIII. 

JOHN CORRY, 1718-1726. 

John Corry's marriage with Sarah Leslie — Her own estate — 
Mattymount and the Wells— John Corry elected m.p. for Ennis- 
killen — Colonel of Militia — Articles for a race meeting — Receives 
another :ommission as Colonel in 1715 — Elected m.p. for Fer- 
managh — Marriage of Rebecca Auchinlech — John Corry 
exchanges Kilsallagh and Derryharney in Magherstephana for 
Largy in Tirkennedy — Margaret Auchinlech's marriage — 
Lease of Killyreagh and Killybar to Mr. Crawford — His estate 
map — His will — and death, . . . . . . .165 

CHAPTER XIV. 

LESLIE CORRY, 1726-1741. 

Leslie's account with Margetson Armar — Lines on Castlecoole — 
Family deeds — Marriages of Mary with Margetson Armar — and 

of Martha with Edmond Leslie — Leslie's will — and early death 

A letter to his mother — Edmond and Martha Leslie assume the 
name of Corry — Their child's death in 1743 — Martha dies in 
1759— and Edmond in 1764 or 1765 — The Newtownlimavaddy 

Election in 1 765 — A Longford rent roll, 180 

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CHAPTER XV. 

MARGETSON ARMAR, 1741-1773. 



Page* 



Inherits the Antrim Estate — Is owner of the Blessingbourne 
Estate — His family history — Rentals, and memoranda — Mr. 
Thompson's poem — Dr. Dunkin's letters to Lord Chesterfield 
and Mr. Armar — Mr. Finlay's poems — "iEdis apud Enniskillen " 
— Mr. Armar's other papers — Letter of the Lords Justices to 
the Duke of Newcastle, Prime Minister — Judgment of Lord 
Chancellor, Lord Bowes, in Lord Ely's case — Mr. Armar pur- 
chases Sir Ralph Gore's Church Lands estate — His will and 
death, . 193 



CHAPTER XVI. 

MARY ARMAR, 1773-1774. 

Her sale of the Church land lease to Armar Lowry-Corry — Her 
will — Death of Miss Mary Lowry-Corrv — Mrs. Armar's 
death, • 243 



CHAPTER XVII. 

SARAH LOWRY CORRY, 1759 AND 1774-1779. 

Her succession to the estates — Her Dublin and Longford property 
— Her will and death, 250 



PART III. 

THE MANORS UNITED. 

CHAPTER XVIII. 

armar lowry corry (earl belmore), continued. 

(from p. 47).— 1779-1802. 

His second marriage— He is created a Baron of Ireland— Dealings 
with the property — Enlargement of Castlecoole demesne — 
Created a Viscount — The present house built — His third mar- 
riage — His son comes of age, and is elected m.p. for Tyrone — 
Lord Belmore created an Earl — Opposes the Union in Parlia- 
ment — Extracts from the " Lords Journals " — Lord Belmore s 
sudden death at Bath, .... ... 257 



XI 

CHAPTER XIX. 

SOMERSET, SECOND EARL BELMORE. 



Page 



3 Lord Corry moves the Address in 1798 — Subsequently opposes 
the Union — Colonel of the Tyrone Militia — His Marriage in 
1800 — His family — Succeeds his father in 1802 — His journey to 
Egypt and the Holy Land — Lord Corry elected m.p. for Fer- 
managh in 1823 — The Hon. Henry Corry elected m.p. for, in 
1825 — Lord Belmore appointed Governor- in -Chief of Jamaica 
in 1828 — Lord Corry seconds the Address in 1829 — Subse- 
quently votes against Catholic Emancipation — Mr. Corrys 
marriage in 1830 — His family — Lord Corry's marriage in 1834 
— Lord Belmore's sale of the Longford and part of the Fer- 
managh Estates in 1839 — His death in 1841, .... 275 



CHAPTER XX. 

ARMAR, THIRD EARL OF BELMORE, 1841-1845. 
AND THE SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE ESTATES. 

Lord Belmore's Improvements at Castlecoole — His death — Encum- 
bered Estates Court sales — Sale of Corballintacken owing to a 
supposed mistake — Re-adjustment of rentals on the estates in my 
possession — Death of Juliana, Countess of Belmore — and of 
Louisa, Countess of Sandwich — Death of the Rt. Hon. Henry 
Corry, 284 

CHAPTER XXI. 

CONCLUDING REMARKS. 

Rules of the Plantation — Rise in the value of land caused mainly 
by fall in the value of money — Social habits of the seventeenth 
century — Estate rules — Fee-farms and long leases — Waste 
lands, 289 



ERRATA. 

Page 1, lines 26 and 28, and elsewhere for " Tuckett," read 

" Tuchett." 
,, 21, line 31, for " of a the dropsie," read " a dropsie." 
„ 38, „ 10, „ "Hardriss," read "Fardross." 
J5 n ,, 14, ,, " Drumcor," read " Drumcar." 
M 52, ,, 31, „ " ecclesi," read. " ecclesia." 

53, „ 5, „ " hopitaKfcy," read "hospitality." 
„ 123, „ 33, „ " Hust," read " Hurst." 
„ 191, lines 24 and 25, dele "and succeeded to her sister's 

estates in Longford, Fermanagh, and Dublin," and vide 

page 250, line 12. 
„ 210, line 8, for "Grace's," read "graces." 
„ 230, „ 17, „ " Fardrop," read " Fardross." 
„ 291, „ 32, „ " rise," read "fall." 
„ 325, „ 27, „ " when," read " where." 
„ 352, „ 48, „ " there," read 11 their." 
„ 362, „ 11, ,, " appeared me," read "appeared to me." 
„ 379, „ 32, „ " 1728," read " 1828." 



Pages 4-8 :— 

In the list of denominations in Fynagh, insert a * before Laraghlinsie. Coolesker, 
Anosnagh, Derryewran, Kilthame, Aghinagarrhy, Ramacran, Ballyntreany, and Cor- 
nacanauon, and omit it befoi'e Garvaghy, Lissboye, Cavanriagh, Ramacowe, and 
Karower, which latter appear not to be identical with the places I supposed. I un- 
derstand (although I cannot myself identify them), that a * should also be put before 
Tateanberan, Dromnamill, Lissara, Ruskaowye, Derreebreye, and Lisboiskackhurlin. 
Nahany is the old name of the modern townland of Annagh. The words rendered 
" of ffarmo r V on page 8, line 17, should be " or ffarmo™," (or farmers). 

* # * Page 251, note to line 8: — The "Mall," was, I am informed, 
the old name of Upper Sack ville-st feet. 

t. o. 



became extinct on tne aeaui ui mc mm ^<«. 
peerages. 



Appendix XL — Ardess Gfobe. 
Page 3G4, line 21 : 

The draft letter alluded to as missing, Las been found since 
this page was in type. It is undated, and runs as follows : — 

Mr. Armar to Mr. Monck. 

Had I known y* you had returned to Town I would have sooner troubled you 
with y e enclosed bill in full of one half year's rent due to y e BishP of Clogher last 
Nov br . I am ashamed at y e delay, and would not have been guilty of it, but y* I 
hoped, for y r ease and my advantage, to have paid, as usual, my Fine for a renewal 
at y e same time : but as y l depends upon y e will of his LordsP, I will wait, with due 
submission to his determination ; and yet I coniess an abatement of y e particular 
favour hitherto conferred upon me by his Lordsp, would grieve me. It will look as if 
I had incurred his displeasure. I did not know that y e Inquisition was made till you 
was [were] pleased to inform me : Had I been summonsed, as I believe I ought to 
have been, I could have laid such proof before y c Jury, as I [paper torn] must have 
convinced them, y* y e present glebe, is at least ten p" s yearly lower in value than y" 
farm intended to be taken from me, and which I or my executors will lose during y* 
continuance of my lease, exclusive of y e probability y* succeeding Bishops may con- 
tinue it in my Family. Perhaps y e Jury mean this when it is said if >, 
very inconsiderable. But this is not all. What I feel most heavily, is j ■ giving up im- 
mediate possession, which will cost me two hundred pounds to be given to my im- 
proving Tenants, and whose treatment hurts me more than y e loss ot'y e Farm. The 
present Rector is comfortably and conveniently settled. Was [were] he not so, I 
should not be so averse from y e desired exchange as I am at present. — I honour y c 
Bishop for his attention to, and care of his Diocess, and therefore I will give his Lord- 
ship any security y* he will demand, y* I will give up y e possession at y* expiration of 
y e term granted to my Tenants, or sooner if I can bring them to a reasonable value. 
I have y e value of y e usual Fine in Mr Mitchell's House, which I would gladly and 
thankfully remove to yours. If you will not take it, be so good as to tell me if I may 
spend it, and to believe y* that I am D r S r 

Y r much obliged and obed 1 humble Servant. 



The foregoing is written on the back of the following letter : — 

Mr. 11. Hassurd to Mr. Armar. 

4 May, ] : 
Sib, 

The Bearer Con Keanan says he has taken a House and some Land at Tan 1 
Water lately inhabited by W m Hutchison, and intends selling X waters: as he 
cannot be licensed without a certificate from the next Magistrate, he has prevailed on 
me to give you this trouble, and I dare not refuse him. for he is married to the 
Daughter of a Herd of mine, of whom I have a good opinion, and Kenan's lather was 
many years tenant to me in Clenish Island I know little of the young man. Be 
promises that there shall not be any cause of complaint against him. therefore if yon 
have not any objection to his selling spirits, I beg leave to request the favor you may 
certifie for him, and you will oblige, Sir, 

Your obedient humble servant. 

Kjchd. Hassakd. 

The names of Con (Constantine) Keenan, and Hutchison, or 
Hutchinson, are still extant in the neighbourhood of Tan House 
Water, which is near Castle Coole, between Tullyharney and 
Tamlaght. The date of this letter seems to lix the place of the 
draft on the back of it, as second in the series of ihe correspond- 
ence about Ardess Glebe. 



THE HISTORY 



TWO ULSTER MANORS OF FINAGH 
AND COOLE. 



PART I. 



CHAPTER I. 

THE MANOR OF FINAGH, COUNTY TYRONE. 

Its early history The Earl and Countess of Castlehaven Sir Pierce 

Crosbye Sir William Ussher and John Ussher Hugh, Lord Glen- 

awly, and his family. 

The first notice of the name of Finagh occurs in the Planta- 
tion map of 1609 (III. 17), where it appears as the name of 
one of the ancient districts, which in the reign of Queen 
Elizabeth (1591), when Tyrone was divided into baronies, 
were comprised in the barony of Omagh. 

For the purposes of the Plantation this barony, exclusive 
of the Church lands of Termonmaguirk, and a few townlands 
attached to the Fort of Omagh, was divided into three large 
proportions, Finagh, Brade, and Fintouagh, and five small 
proportions, Rarone, Edergoole Garvelagh, Claraghmore, 
and Cornabracken. (App. A). 

At the Plantation, Finagh and Rarone were granted to 
Lord Audley* and Elizabeth, his (second) wife, at a rent of 
£16 a year, and constituted the manor of Hely. Brade was 
granted to Sir Mervyn Tuckett, Lord Audley's eldest son. 
Fintonagh to his second son, Sir Ferdinando Tuckett. 
Garvelagh and Claraghmore to his son-in-law, Sir John 

* George Tuckett, eleventh Baron Audley, of Helaigh, in Staffordshire, 
married (1) Lucy, daughter of Sir John Mervyn, of Fonthill, Wilts, and (2) 
Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Andrew Noel, of Brooke, Rutlandshire, grandfather of 
first Earl of Gainsborough. The barony of Audley went into abeyance between 
the daughters of the eighteenth Lord in 1872. The Earldom of Castlehaven 
became extinct on the death of the fifth Earl in 1777. Vide Lodge's and Burke's 
peerages. 

B 



Davies, married to his daughter Eleanor ; and Edergoole and 
Cornabracken to another son-in-law, Edward Blount esq., 
married to his daughter Anna. (App. B). 

These grants were all made in 1611-12. In September, 
1616, Lord Audley was raised to the Earldom of Castle- 
haven, in consideration of his military services in the 
Netherlands, France, and Ireland, and more particularly 
at the seige of Kinsale, where he was severely wounded. 
He enjoyed his new dignity however only for a few months, 
as he died early in the following year, near Drumquin 
county Tyrone. (App. C). 

His widow, who was joint patentee of Finagh and Rarone, 
married in 1619 Sir Pierce Crosbie,* (cupbearer). The 
conditions of the Plantation having been found not to have 
been complied with on this property, probably on the report of 
Nicholas Pynnar and his brother Commissioners (App. D), 
the Countess and Sir Pierce made a surrender and received 
a re-grant of the same in 1619. (App. E). 

At an Inquisition held in Dungannon in 1631 (App. 
F) these lands were again found to be forfeited for the same 
reason, and were again surrendered and re-granted, this 
time to Sir P. Crosbye alone, though the Countess his wife 
was still living. The rent was raised on the occasion of 
this grant to £32 (App. G). 

Lastly, a grant of the same lands was made to Sir P. 
Crosbye in 1637, upon the Commission of Defective Titles 
(App. H). It was, probably, on this occasion that the quit- 
rent of the manor of Finagh was raised to £43 15s., and 15s. 
for "four fairs and a market in the town of Ballynalla." 
These rents were added together and paid as for the manor, 
until they were extinguished last year (1880) by the Com- 
missioners of Woods, for twenty-eight years' purchase. 
" Ballynalla " was, no doubt, a clerical error in the Quit- 
Rent Book in the Custom House in Dublin, for "Bally- 
culla," now probably Cooley, between Sixmilecross and 
Beragh. The fairs which are at present held at Sixmile- 
cross take place on the 19th day of each month. 

In this year (1637) Sir Pierce conveyed Finagh and 
Rarone to Sir William Ussher, and in the Civil Survey 

* Son of Patrick Crosbye, esq.. Queen's County, rewarded in Queen Elizabeth's 
reign for his loyalty and ability, by a grant of O'Morrough's lands. Sir Pierce 
was a minor at his father's death. He served at Rochelle under the Duke of 
Buckingham. On his return, in 1629, his regiment was ordered to be placed on the 
Irish establishment by Charles I. He incurred the displeasure of Strafford, was 
prosecuted in the Star Chamber, and confined in the Fleet prison, but escaped 
beyond the seas, where he remained until Strafford's trial, when he appeared as 
a witness against him. He died without issue in 1646, having bequeathed all his 
estates to his cousins, Walter and David Crosbye, sons of his uncle John. 

Lodges Peerage. Ill, .p. 326 (S. Crosbit, Earl of Glandore). 



Report, connected with the Down Survey (1657) these 
lands, with several townlands in the small proportion of Eder- 
goole (including Beagh, Letfern, Legacorry, and Moylagh * 
now part of my property), were reported to have been in the 
possession of Sir William Ussher, knt., Protestant, in the 
year 1641 (App. I). 

In 1662, the Countess of Castlehaven was still living, having 
survived her second husband Sir Pierce Crosbye, deceased 
in 1646, and she and her nephew and heir apparent (Baptist 
third Viscount Camden) were declared innocent Protestants 
(i.e. not concerned in the Rebellion of 1641), and as such 
entitled to the lands originally granted to her ladyship, and 
asserted by her to have been in her possession at the date 
of the Rebellion, totally ignoring the conveyance to Sir W. 
Ussher in 1637 (Decrees of Innocents, Roll vi., 51). Sir 
William, however, retained possession of the property (Deed 
of Conveyance "penes me). 

In the Appendices (J and K), will be found an inquisition 
held at Koragh, in 1639, and a list of denominations. Also 
lists of the inhabitants of TermonM'Goork(Termonmaguirk), 
for the second Pole Money (Pole tax), and the Hearth Money 
Roll for A.D. 1666 ; an extract from the Subsidy Roll of 
1663, showing who in the parish were liable for rent and 
stock; and a list of five persons in the baronies of Omagh 
and Strabane liable for tithes, and of tenants and rents of 
certain Church lands (App. L). Also a short history of the 
parish (App. M). 

In 1672, John Ussher, who had succeeded his father Sir 
William, sold the property to Hugh Lord Glenawley. 

Lord Glenawley was the son of Dr. Archibald Hamilton, 
consecrated Bishop of Killala in 1623, and Archbishop of 
Cashel in 1630. In the Rebellion of 1641, this prelate was 
obliged to fly for safety to Sweden, where he died at 
Stockholm in 1659. His second son, Hugh, who accompanied 
his father in his exile, obtained the title of Baron Lunge in 
Sweden, and on his return to this country was created 
Baron of Glenawley in Fermanagh, in 1660. 

At an Inquisition held in Bally gawley 26th January 
1628, the small proportion of Moyenner, originally granted 
to William Turvin esq., was found to be in the possession 
of Dr. Archibald Hamilton, who had forfeited his right by 
non-compliance with the Articles of the Plantation ; but on 
surrender received a re-grant in 1629. At a later Inquisition 
held in Dungannon 17th June, 1661, Hugh Lord Hamilton 
was found to be in peaceable possession of the same, having 
succeeded his elder brother, Archibald who died unmarried. 

* I have only a head-rent out of Moylagh. 

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4 

Lord Glenawley being thus possessed of the Manors of 
Fynagh and Moyenner, died between 1676 and 1678, leaving 
a son and two daughters, who after their brothers death 
became his coheiresses. The elder, Arabella Susannah, mar- 
ried Sir John Magill, of the County Down ; and the younger, 
Nicola Sophia, married in 1687 Sir Tristram Beresford of 
Coleraine. In 1695 these ladies divided their property. 
Fynagh, with some exceptions became the separate property 
of the elder, and Moyenner of the younger. The advowson 
of Term on was still held jointly. Having survived their 
husbands, these ladies were married secondly — Lady Magill 
to the Lord Viscount Dungannon, and Lady Beresford to 
Lieut.-General Richard Gorges, of Kilbrew, county Meath. 

In 1705 Lord Dungannon and his wife sold Fynagh and 
their share of the advowson of Termon-Maguirk to my an- 
cestor Robert Lowry, esq., of Aghenis. 

The following is an Abstract of the Conveyance from Mr. 
John Ussher : — 

On the 3rd day of February, 24th Charles II., 1672, John 
Ussher of the City of Dublin esq., assigned to the Rt. 
Honble. Hugh, Lord Baron of Glanawly, for the sum of 
^3,400, all that the Mannor of Fynagh, and Court Leete 
and view of Frankpledge thereof, with all that belongs to 
view of Frankpledge, and a court in nature of a Court 
Baron usually kept within the said Mannor, &c, with all 
the tounes and proportions of lands by the generall survey 
of all lands within the County of Tyrone, now or lately 
called the greate proportion of Fynagh, and the advowson 
of the Rectory and church of Termonmaguirk, and also all 
the towns, villages, hamlets, ballyboes, sessioghes, &c, of — 

Laraghlinsie, alias Derrieviagh, Ateniskidossagh. 

alias Derrievagh. *Radargan. 

Namoyle, alias Nameda. Aughney appall. 

Moylebegge. Killtbonalta. 

Moylemore. Nassenoga. 

Nahanydoone. Loegga. 
Derrchrien, alias Derryclirieigh. Biuitvisse. 

Anaghdarragh. Leabiskeaileaglie. 

Monesboghe. Mullaglmiickgaggin. 

Derrybeir, alias Derryseir. Armaghbriegge. 

Cavan. Cloghernaghduffe. 

*Eskermore. Garvithstohye. 

Droynmeent. Meenaghdoohie. 

Lisinoniteryillagan . *Barhali. 

Anaghmicknime. Breandrom. 

* These names are either the modern ones, or are sufficiently like them, to be 
recognizable 



Listoine. 

Knockainaboll. 

Knockaneeivaghane. 

*Garvaghy. 

Cluainanorarame. 

Knocknashemer. 

Livigarriagh. 

Knokannasheade. 

Cenanadwalie. 

Sheannmllagh. 

Carricknastogg. 

Coolesker. 

Knockeytonvas. 

Tnamemachagli. 

Tateanberan, alias Derrybroges. 

Derrybraghleiske. 

Knockadwell. 

Tullaghtabron. 

Benaghgawna. 

Rassada. 

Beaghdowe. 

*Banchran. 

Rodday. 

Seyfine. 

Dreynane. 

Rasnabeortagh. . 

Knocknanarragh. 

Anosnagh, alias Ossnagh. 

Goroosnagh. 

Knockgeilgeagh. 

Cavenehossnie. 

Ardlochra. 

*Derryowgre, alias Derryowre. 

Lismore. 

Droyniore. 

Gowland. 

Garvagha. 

Derryewran. 

Knocknahony. 

Aghanskeagh. 

Stranagrey. 

Clomonrra, alias Clemore. 

Anaghaneighboy. 

Lisnaganonagb . 

Lorganardi. 

Lisnaiuraher. 



Cavanmore. 

Gorsliawe. 

Kilthame, alias Kilthome. 

Sramore. 

Dromgawe, alias Dromgoisse, 

alias Dromgan. 
Knockigowill. 
Knockachossane. 
Deloynrae. 
Carricknagappoll. 
Aghafadda. 
Lisrandmaghboy. 
Killrian. 
fBallyculla. 
Lisilima. 
Listulla. 
Sramore. 
Aghinagarrhy, alias Aghnagar- 

tie, alias Aghnagerrha. 
Knocknedomaye. 
Keeranbane. 
Meenebreake. 
Teanyanalt. 
Meenahalle. 
*Tullyneale, alias Tullyoneale, 

alias Carragh. 
*Lishinkon. 
Lisawaddy. 
Altatotan. 
*Ballyhallaghan. 
Aghaclaaghe. 
Shenmollagb. 
Cornegnowe. 
*Ballykeile. 
Mullankeanan. 
Ramacran, alias Ramarcan, 

alias Ramacawe. 
Knocknaneinfin. 
Sranasenkeagh. 
Knocknaskologe. 
Knockindomoche. 
Dromemalloy. 
Garwaglia. 
Gowlan. 
Talleneglogge. 
Knocknahorny. 

* These names are either the modern ones, or are sufficiently like them to be 
recognizable. Tullyneale is a subdenomination of Sixmilecross, formerly called 
Koragh. 

| The modern name is Cooley. 



Shrairnagan. 

Tawnaghamolley. 

*Brackagh, alias Amrackagh. 

Teignill. 

Seygollan. 

Dromnamill. 

Carrathane. 

Eskerimn ldo wne. 

Clare. 

Lisnaseedy. 

Knaghleame. 

Knocknageiroge. 

Ballyntreany, alias Ballyn- 

treana. 
Knocknanoisse. 
Knockacoyle. 
Shrasorloboye. 
Knockayenisin. 
Belaud. 
Gorttry. 
Gortnakessagh. 
Lorgangemoe. 
Lorgameangonagh. 
Loryamore. 

*Cloghfine, alias Cloghanie. 
Lisnonine. 
Dowrakingtonie. 
Knockarrboye. 
Magharreboye. 
Mollaghnemanus. 
Knocknaskologe. 
Daucloghe. 
Killmacmeenie. 
Knock adowley. 
Shrabreake. 
Knockangorme. 
Badowed, alias Badawaid. 
Knockacarnanie. 



Monenamuckie. 

Lauley. 

Tonergergbegg. 

Neahawishbeaga. 

Algrome. 

Corraghbracke. 

Attanabony. 

Esganagnowe. 

Shranagrey. 

Liscahill. 

*Aghanaglea. 

Drosheny, alias Doriisheny. 

*Cavanrevagh, alias Cavariagh. 

Carrarody. 

Cluanilsboggan. 

*Glaninny. 

*Tonregeoghe, alias Gortfin. 

Legatukanie. 

Altneneagh. 

*Dromlester, alias Dromlaster. 

Seskanurna. 

Artaghomogagli. 

Alyanagh. 

Esvanacroaty. 

Anaghnadamoye. 

Cullelagk, alias Cuillagh. 

Cuillaghbegg. 

Cuillaghloghie. 

Annaghadaiwe. 

Anaghnaslatoye. 

Annaghnagolpaghe. 

Anaghnakirke. 

Sraimnrnie. 

Pollarnakellydowey. 

Sragarrawe. 

Srakelle. 

Aghvollaglie, and 

Bnmnoisb shall. 



And also all that proportion of lands by the general survey 
of all lands within the said county of Tyrone aforesaid, now 
or lately called the little proportion of Barone, and also all 
towns villages hamlets balliboes sessioghes of lands parcels 
of lands tenements and hereditaments of — 



*Dowgerie. 



Knocknakorny, 
Slienn Inish. 



* These Dames are either the modem ones, or are sufficiently like them to he 
recognizable. 



Knockavorin. 

Downallame. 

Sbemnallaghe. 

Sranaglacka. 

Knocknebun. 

*Rasnowly (] Renelly), alias 

Nasirclasa. 
Lemania. 
Cornacreagb. 

Tullybeerin, alias Rarone. 
Lislagb, alias Lisloist. 
Knockabackame. 
Anaghaneighboy. 
Tnllyantempany. 
Coraneerey. 
Eotraan. 
Lissagoway. 
Tryansmealagh. 
Knockamuckley. 
Anagbnamraber. 
Lissara, alias Lissearne. 
Gortyrencha. 
Lissnagatte. 
Knockacboyne. 
Knockagailgarnie. 
Redane. 
Fferamsegart. 
*Lissboye. 
Cavanagbolcaire. 
Gortaghcaire. 
Knockacboyne. 
Keanduffe. 



Knock Ideragreny. 
*I)rumdoffe. 
t*Corballintackin, alias Agba- 

rone. 
Achorr. 
Gavancorra. 
Rarellan. 
Tully Iderdagh. 
Eskeeraueenagb. 
Bewollteggie. 



Knockacbappull. 

Meyrnevenie. 

Nacamebana. 

Knockanery. 

Knockantentie. 

Agbnakeeragb. 

Anagbskeangb. 

*Killodrone, alias Killadrowe. 

K nockanewagban. 

Tullyaneasla. 

Knocknost. 

Lisgarwa. 

Knocknamoulest. 

Camerocine. 

Knocknalogbie. 

Ruskaowye, alias Raskawa. 

Tawnagbnendressoge. 

Moybribinenowine. 

Desert. 

Nekoeloga. 

Nebinriny. 

Cavanaduffe. 

Carranaghbane. 

Carrickduffe. 

Crewodaragan. 

Knockamensin. 

Knockanaboghill. 

Derreebreye, alias Derren- 

choughy. 
Cavanabenimurry. 
Attemanusy] asse. 
Anaghagb. 
Meenawilter. 
Urbalsbenny. 
Knockarado. 
Anaghduffe m'hurmy. 
Meelagbselogagbe. 
Knocknegortane, alias Knock- 

negurrulane. 
Killineene. 
Cavanagarvaine. 
Nabany. 
Knocknaskeagb. 



* These names are either the modern ones, or are sufficiently like them to be 
recognizable. 

t Corballintackin does not appear in the Ordnance map, but Curr does, and it 
is conjectured that Curr is a corruption of the first syllable of the word. The 
next word Acorr certainly represents the modern townland of Curr, or part of it. 
Ballintackin was an ancient name of the district, in that part of the parish, as 
shown on the map of 1609. 



Mullagheirnarry. *Rarower. 

Knockantharnaine. Lisrahanna. 

Eskor. Boreaklagh. 

Kinsoghtan. Cornacananon. 

Gortvaghie. Lisnakolly. 

Knockaroydy. Dulbunduffe. 

Urballaghody. Shenmollagh. 

*Cavanriagh. Sranaseadoge. 

Gortnakessagh. Branarr. 
Tyrwonye alias Tyrynehorrowe. Lisboiskackhurlin. 

*Ramacowe alias Ramacone. Knockorboy. 

Dulbembegg. Dowernagh. 

Dulbemmore. Mullassageally and 

Knocknaclohie. Knockeydowell. 

And all the lands &c, lately in the tenure or occupation of 
the said Sir William Ussher knight, or his tenants of 
rFarmo re t esteemed two third parts of the touns kc, of 
Racassan alias Lischoppaine, and also all waifes, strayes 
within the premises or any part thereof, all and singular 
within said premises, and situate lying and being in the 
precinct or Barony of Omagh in the County of Tyrone (with 
the various appurtenances set forth at length, including " as 
well sweet as salt woods,") to the use of the said Hugh Lord 
Baron of Glanawly and his heirs and assigns for ever. John 
Ussher appointed his loving friends Andrew Linsie of 
Springtoune and Wm. Moore of Garry both in the said 
county, to be his true and lawful attorney and attornies, 
in this behalf to enter into peaceable possession of the 
premises, or any part thereof in the name of the whole, and 
peaceable possession livery and seizin to make and deliver, 
to the said Hugh Lord Baron of Glenawly. 

This is signed by John Ussher and witnessed by ? Hn 
Smilgan, John Hamilton, Godwin Swift, Pat. Hamilton, 
? Het. Roorke and Ja. Bellings. 

A memorandum is endorsed that on the fourth day of 
March, 1672, livery and seizin and possession of the within 
mentioned lands and premises was given to Lord Glenawly 
by Wm. Moore, esq., by virtue of the within letter of 

marke 

attorney in present of John Younge and ? Forlay + Reak, 

his 

Allan Moore, Henry ? Emette, John ? Drumond, George 
Moncrieffe, and Charles Young. 

I have taken the list of denominations from the original 

* These Darnes are either the modern ones, or are sufficiently like them to be 
recognizable, 
t Sic in orig. 



deed of feoffment, dated 3rd February, 1672-3. By far the 
greater number are obsolete, and I think forgotten. Some 
few are those in the map No. III., 17, of the escheated lands 
in Ulster, of 1609. 

Evidently the copyist wrote them phonetically, and is 
not always consistent in his spelling. Sixmilecross, the 
modern name of a village on the estate, I can only trace 
back to 1695. It was anciently called Koragh, or as given 
in the list Carragh, the alias of Tullyneale, which still sur- 
vives as the name of a hill above the village. 

Shortly before selling the manor, Mr. John Ussher appears 
to have given a fee-farm grant of a large townland now called 
Roscavey, to Mr. James Galbraith gentleman, at a rent of 
£10 a year late Irish currency. Mr. Galbraith a descendant 
of the lessee still holds it. A few years ago it was put into 
the Landed Estates Court but withdrawn. From the sale 
rental it appears that the then rent was £732 12s. 2cL, or 
deducting head rent £9 4s. 8d., and tithe-rent charge £36 
7s. 6cl, £687 net; whilst the tenement valuation was £561, 
and the acreage 1,128a. 2r. 26p. The owner held part of it. 
and there were besid es fifty-six principal holders. The follow- 
ing is the description of the tenure taken from the sale rental. 

Tenure. 

By indenture, dated 9th July, 1672, made between John Usher, 
of the city of Dublin esquire of the one part, and James Galbraith 
of Roscavey in the county of Tyi'one gentleman, of the other 
part, the said John Usher granted unto the said James Galbraith, 
all that one balliboe or townland, commonly called or known by 
the name of Roscavey, situate lying and being within the pro- 
portion of land called the Ballybotagh of Ballylarkin [Ballintackin], 
together with all the arable land meadows pasture commons 
feedings bogs mountains woods underwoods loughs lakes 
rivers rivulets buildings edifices commodities and appurtenances 
thereunto belonging, except free liberty to the said John Usher, 
his heirs or assigns, of fishing, fowling, hunting, hawking, as also 
eyries of hawks and falcons. To hold the said premises unto the 
said James Galbraith his heirs and assigns for ever, by what 
name or names soever they be called reputed or known, with 
their and every of their appurtenances, with al] bounds mears 
and other advantages thereunto belonging or appertaining, in as 
full large and ample a manner to all intents and purposes, as 
ever the said premises were at any time theretofore held and 
enjoyed by Hugh Galbraith deceased, father unto the said James 
Galbraith, to be holden of the said John Usher, his heirs and 
assigns, as of his manor of Ballylarkin [Ballintackin] aforesaid, 
by fealty and the articles and covenants thereinafter mentioned, 



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subject to the yearly rent of £10 payable at the chief mansion- 
house of the manor aforesaid, in the hall of the said house, at the 
feasts of Saint Michael the Archangel and Easter by even and 
equal portions. Said indenture contains a covenant by the said 
James Galbraith his heirs and assigns, to do suit and service at 
the courts-leet and courts-baron of the said John Usher, to be 
holden for the manor of Ballylarkin [Ballintackin], and that he 
should not commence actions and suits against any of the tenants 
-within the said manor out of the said courts, unless it appeared 
that the value of that which they purposed to sue for amounted 
to 40s. or more. 

I am not aware where the "chief mansion house of the 
manor" was situated. There is no trace of it. 

An indenture leading to the uses of a fine dated 26th 
June 1695, between Sir John Magill bart. of Gillhall in 
the county of Down, and Arabella Susanna Lady Magill 
his wife of the first part ; Sir Tristram Beresford bart. of 
Coleraine in the county of Londonderry, and Nicola Sophia, 
Lady Beresford his wife, of the second part ; and Robert 
King of the city of Dublin, gent., of the third part; recites 
that the said Arabella Susanna and Nicola Sophia were 
seized in fee as copartners, and that Sir John Magill and 
Sir Tristram Beresford were seized in right of their wives 
of the manor of Finagh alias Sixmilecross in the barony of 
Omagh ; and of the manor of Moynde alias Ballygawley in 
the barony of Clogher ; and also of courts-leet and courts- 
baron, view of frank-pledge and all that to view of frank- 
pledge doth appertaine, escheats of chattels felons waifs 
and fugitives, and all and singular fairs markets rights 
jurisdictions privileges and franchises to the said manors 
respectively belonging and in anywise appertaining ; and 
also of and in the several lands of Martry Arteninulloghy 
Crevenagh Killindry and Tullyvannan in the barony of 
Dungannon ; the said Arabella Susanna and Nicola Sophia 
being sisters and coheirs of William late Lord Baron of 
Glenawly, who was son and heir of Hugh late Lord Baron 
of Glenawly. It then recites that it had been agreed to 
divide the lands &c. ; and that Sir John Magill and his wife 
were to have the manor of Finagh, with all its royalties and 
appurtenances, excepting out of it Upper and Lower Cloghfm 
Ballykeele Aghnagar and Eskermore, and that Sir Tristram 
and Lady Beresford were to take for their share the excepted 
lands of the manor of Finagh, together with the manor of 
Moynde alias Ballygawley, and the lands in the barony of 
Dungannon. The two first parties were to present to the 
advowson of Termonmaguirk alternately, drawing lots for 
the first turn. 



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This deed bears the autographs — Jo. Magill; Arabella 
Susanna Magill ; T. Beresford ; Nicola Sophia Beresford ; and 
Robert King : it has an additional interest in the circum- 
stance of Lady Beresford being the heroine of the celebrated 
Beresford ghost story, the scene of which is laid at Gillhall, 
county Down * She was the ancestress of the Marquis of 
"VVaterford, who at the time of the disestablishment of the 
Church of Ireland, was still patron of a moiety of the advow- 
son of Termonmaguirk ; although as he has informed me, she 
left the rest of the property away from the Beresford family, 
overlooking the advowson, to (as I believe) her second 
husband Lieut.-General Gorges. 

An indenture dated 30th June, 1697 between Sir Tristram 
Beresford of the one part, and James Corry of Castle- 
coole, esq., of the other part, recites that Nicola Sophia 
Hamilton alias Beresford, wife of Sir Tristram had at 
his special request conveyed to Audley Mervyn esq., her 
right and title and interest in a mortgage of £2,440 
which she had upon the estate of Hugh Mervyn of Nawle 
esq., which was part of her own estate and fortune. 
And that whereas by a former settlement he (Sir Tristram) 
had settled £100 a year upon her, to be paid to her 
during her coverture as pinmoney ; to secure this he gives 
to James Corry esq. an annuity of £160 payable out of the 
Ballygawley estate, the lands in Finagh excepted from the 
manor, and the Dungannon lands, out of which to pay £160 
to Lady Beresford if she should insist upon having it. 
James Corry has a power of distraint. After the rent- 
charge has been satisfied, the lands to be held to the trusts 
of a settlement between Sir Tristram and Lady Beresford 
and others, concerning these lands. 

Sir John Magill having died, his widow appears to have 
remarried after a very short interval with the Lord Viscount 
Dungannon. Her marriage settlement (which is in my 
possession), is dated 30th April, 1700. It is between the 
Honorable Arabella Susannah widow of Sir John Magill 
Knight and Baronet of the first part, and the Right Hon. 
Thomas Lord Baron of Howth, Blaney Townley, Esq., of 
Acclare in the county of Louth, and Robert King of the city 
of Dublin, of the other part. It recites that the said 
Arabella Susannah was seized in fee, and during the term 
of her natural life in possession, of one rentcharge or 
annuity of £700 to be yearly issuing out of certain 
(mentioned) lands in the county of Down ; and that Sir 
John Magill, by his will dated 13th June, 1698, and by a 

* Vide App. tf. 



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codicil dated 17th January, 1699 (1700), had devised to 
the said Arabella Susannah, all his furniture, household 
stuff, his mansion house of Gillhall, and demesne thereto 
belonging for her life; and likewise unto her absolute use, 
all his jewels, rings, apparel, and table plate ; and that 
sometime after he had died, whereby she became possessed 
of the same ; and that she was seised in fee of the Manor 
of Fynagh otherwise Sixmilecross, and of a moiety of the 
advowson of Termonmaguirk, except Upper Cloghfm, 
Lower Cloghfin, Ballykeele, Aghnegar, and Eskermore ; and 
also of a moiety of the presentation to the advowson of 
Drummully in the county of Fermanagh ; and of a moiety of 
the towns or tates called Barnehill and Killypay alias 
Lilly padin and the island of Inchgraflm, county Fermanagh : 
further, that a marriage was about to be solemnized between 
the said Arabella Susannah and Marcus Lord Viscount 
Dungannon, and that it was agreed with the consent of 
Lord Dungannon testified by his subscribing the deed as 
a witness, that Lady Magill should convey the premises to 
the above-named persons, in trust to permit her to enjoy 
the rents, but reserving to her power to make leases or fee- 
farms, or to sell or mortgage the same, or dispose of them 
by will : and that she therefore conveys them to trustees 
reserving to herself these powers. 
Then follows : — 

" The Schedule to which the annexed Deed refers : — 

One piece of dimond pendance. 

One crosseal. 

One paire of earrings. 

One dimond ruby pearl necklace. 

One yard and a little more of oriental perl. 

Two lockets and a little picture. 

Two gold meddalls and two of silver. 

One gold spoone. 

Two porringers. 

One silver looking glass. 

Two powder boxes. 

Two patch boxes. 

Two brushes. 

Two salvers. 

One pah of candlesticks and a pair of snuffers. 

One bason. 

One pincushion. 

Three pair and a half of candlesticks. 

Three pah' and a half more of candlesticks. 

Three salvers. 

One bason. 



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Two tumblers. 

One tankard. 

Four porringers. 

One tumbling cup. 

One serpentine tankard with a silver lid double guilt. 

A little silver trunk. 

Two pair of skonces. 

Thirteen forkes. 

Thirteen spoones and a bigg one.' 

Twelve knives. 

Four salts. 

One chaffing dish and a pluming pan. 

Two silver dishes. 

One guilt gold and silver dish. 

Three guilt spoons." 

This deed is signed by Lady Magill in presence of 

" Mary Howth. 
" Dungannon. 
"Robt. Ross." 

and by Blaney Townley in presence of 
" Saml. Martin. 
" Thos. Cooke." 

Sir J ohn Magill was the predecessor of the present Earl of 
Clanwilliam, into whose family the Gillhall property came 
by a marriage. 

On the 22nd March following 1700-1 Lady Dungannon 
and her trustees mortgaged the lands to Mr. Joseph Darner, 
of Dublin, for seven years, for £4,000 at 8 per cent, per 
annum; but i?2,000 might be repaid on the 24th March, 
1702. 

On the 27th January following, Mr. Darner made a re- 
demise by way of lease, to Lord Dungannon, of the said 
premises for the yearly rent of £320, together with certain 
premises in the county Down given as collateral security, 
viz., the low-water corn-mill of Loughbrickland, the lands 
of Kilcommurry, Ballindrummin, Sharrade and the Mill, 
and Ballynemurry. 

On the 30th January, 1705-6, Lord and Lady Dungannon, 
Lord Howth, Blaney Townley and Robert King, granted a 
lease for a year of the manor of Fynagh, and of a moiety 
of the presentation of Termonmaguirk, to Robert Lowry, 
of Aghenis, county Tyrone, the grandfather of the first Earl 
of Belmore, my own great grandfather. This manor (ex- 
cepting the before-mentioned exceptions), or, more strictly 
speaking the greater part of it (for I believe two or three 



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townlands have been sold), has consequently been in the 
possession of my family for a century and three-quarters : 
one of Robert Lowry's sons,* his grandson,! great grandson,^ 
great great grandson,§ and great great great grandson,|| 
have at some time of their lives represented the county of 
Tyrone in the House of Commons; one of them, the late Right 
Hon. Henry Corry for more than forty-seven years unin- 
terruptedly. He was I believe, at the time of his death 
in 1873, the father of the House. 

The lease for a year was in accordance with the statute 
for converting uses into possession, followed by a re-lease 
dated the next day (31st January, 1705-6). This document 
recites Lady Dungannon's marriage settlement and the 
mortgage to Darner; also a further loan of £500, for security 
for which, the said lands had been conveyed to him, as also 
the lands of Knockbarrow in the county Down, and that 
Lord and Lady Dungannon had further borrowed a sum of 
£350 secured by judgments; and being minded to pay off 
the same, had agreed to sell Fynagh, and their moiety of the 
presentation to the advowson, to Robert Lowiy for £115, 
he paying off the charges, and saving Lord and Lady Dun- 
gannon harmless ; all the remaining lands are to be held 
by Lord and Lady Dungannon freed from the incumbrances, 
and the bonds or deeds are to be cancelled. £5,500 was the 
sum to be paid to Mr. Darner, £115 to Lord and Lady Dun- 
gannon. 

This conveyance or re-lease is signed — 

" Dungannon. 

" Arabella Susannah Dungannon. 

" Howth. 

" Blaney Townlev. 

"Robert King." 

The witnesses to the signature of Lord Howth are B Wm. 
Taylor, and Geo. Hamill," and to those of Lord and Lady 
Dungannon, " Geo. Hamill, Robt. Hassard, and Win. 
Barry." 

This deed bears an endorsement whereby Lord and Lady 
Dungannon acknowledge to have received from Robert 
Lowry, full satisfaction and payment of and for the within 
mentioned sums of £500 and £350, secured to be paid to 
Darner by the recited deeds of mortgage, made for securing 
by deed of mortgage £500; and by the within mentioned 

* Galbraith Lowry (Corry). t Armar Lowry Corry (Earl Belmore). 

% Somerset Lowry Corry, Viscount Corry. § The Rt. Hon. Henry Corry. 

"llLt.-Col. Hon. Henry Corry. 



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bonds and judgment, entered into by the said Lord, and 
the Lady Beresford, to Darner for securing £350; by Robert 
Lowry having paid off the said sums to Darner, together 
with all interest, and having procured sufficient discharges 
M to us " (them) for the same from Darner, and having 
delivered up " to us " i them) the securities, and got satis- 
faction entered on record of judgment of [two sums of] 
£700 and £700; and they also acknowledge to have received 
the sum of £115, from which they release Robert Lowry and 
his heirs. 



Signed 7th February, 1705 
In presence of 



Dungannon. 

Arabella Susannah Duno-annon." 



John Hamilton. 
" Robert Hassard. 
" Robert Ross." 

Between the date of the deed and of the endorsement, i.e. 
on 2nd February, 1705, Lord and Lady Dungannon and 
Mr. Darner assigned all arrears of rent since 1703, to Robert 
Lowry. On the 4th February 1705, a deed was made 
between Joseph Darner of the first part ; Thomas Bell of the 
city of Dublin, esq., and James Martin of the same, merchant, 
executors of the will of Andrew Smith of the same, mer- 
chant of the second part ; and Oliver M'Causland of Rush, 
county Tyrone, esq., and Robert Lowry of Aghenis of the 
third part. It recites Lord and Lady Dungannon's mortgage 
for £4,000, and says that one sum of £2,000 (part of the 
£4,000) belonged to Darner, and that the other sum of 
£2,000 belonged to the executors of Smith. It also recites 
the loans of £500 and £350; the latter secured by two judg- 
ments against Lord Dungannon and the Right Hon. the Lady 
Beresford; and that £437 is due to Darner as interest on 
several loans ; and to the executors £300. It recites the par- 
ticulars of the agreement with Robert Lowry for paying off 
the loans, and paying the further sum of £115; and that 
M'Causland and Lowry have paid off £500 and £350, and 
given a bond to pay £437 10s. 6d. on the 1st August next, 
being interest and cash due to Darner, and have given a 
bond to Bell and Martin to secure their £300 with interest. 
It is declared that the mortgage for £4,000 shall still affect 
the manor, &c, but that M'Causland and Lowry may pay 
to Darner either £500 or £1,000 on account thereof in one 



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and each (several) payment, and to the executors £1,000 in 
one and each (separate) payment, on giving three months 
notice. 

On the 26th June 1706, Darner, Bell, and Martin made 
an assignment of the mortgage to one Mr. Keas, junior of 
Aghenis. A lease for a year from Darner to Keas is dated 
June 25th. Here the record of these transactions ends. I 
cannot ascertain whether Mr. Keas was or was not a trustee 
for Mr. Lowry. A half-sister of his married a Mr. " Keys," 
which was possibly only a variation of the spelling of the same 
name, and Mr. Keas junior may quite possibly have been 
Mr. Lowry's connexion. 



CHAPTER II. 

JAMES, JOHN, AND ROBERT LOWRY, SEN, 1665 to 1720. 

Their families Purchases of land Robert Lowry's acquisition of the 

Manor of Finagh His will. 

Having traced the history of Fynagh from the Plantation 
of Ulster to the year 1705-6, when it came into possession of 
my family, this will be a convenient point for stating the pre- 
vious history of the family. The first member of it concerning 
whom I have any authentic record, or indeed anything 
beyond mere tradition, was James Lowry who died intes- 
tate. In the year 16 65, letters of administration were granted 
to his eldest son and heir John Lowry. James is described 
as of BaHynagorry, co. Tyrone. I have heard that there is 
a townland of that name in the neighbourhood of Strabane. 
This is all that I positively know about him. The tradition is, 
that he was a younger son of the family of Laurie of Maxwel- 
ton, Dumfries, in Scotland. His son John had two wives; the 
first was Mary Buchanan, by whom he had two sons, viz. — 
Robert, the purchaser of Fynagh; and John, who appears at 
one time to have lived in the county Louth, to have married 
Mary daughter of Hemy Townley, esq., of Aclare, co. 
Louth, widow of a Mr. Foulkes, and to have died about 
1698 without issue. His widow married thirdly James 
Somerville, esq. 

John Lowry senior had also four daughters by his first 
marriage, viz. : — 

1. Catherine, m. Samuel Perry esq. of Moyloughmore, 

co. Tyrone. 

2. Anna, on. Robert M'Clintock esq., of Castrues, 

co. Donegal. 



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3. Rebecca, m. Wm. Moore, of Drumond co. Tyrone 

esq. 

4. Jane, m. John M'Clintock of Trintagh co. 

Donegal esq. 

John Lowry married secondly Jane, daughter of Sir Hugh 
Hamilton, of Ballyfatton co. Tyrone, by whom he had 
William, who died unmarried in India, and three daughters, 
viz. : 

1. m. Fras. Perry, of Tattyreagh esq. 

2. m. Keys of Cavancor co. Donegal esq. 

3. m. Archibald Woods of Trinsallagh, co. Donegal esq. 

He is said to have been present at the siege of Deny, 
with his second wife, who died there. Probably he was an 
elderly man then ; one of the civilians driven to take refuge 
in the town, as his name does not appear in any of the lists 
of officers. His name, however, does appear amongst those 
of persons attainted by King James' Parliament in 1689.* 

The only document in my possession relating to him 
is a lease for a year or conveyance dated 26th February 
1694, by a Mr. Peirson of St. James Middlesex, to John 
Lowry of Atherdeet (now Ardee) county Louth, of the 
lands of Drummin county Armagh containing 45 acres, 
then in the occupation of Mr. Patrick Savage. On the 
following day 27th February 1694, a release of Drummin 
containing 45 acres, which had belonged to the late Arthur, 
Earl of Anglesey (a predecessor of Viscount Valentia), 
whose debts exceeded his personal estate by £5,000, was 
executed for the consideration of £32 10s. It had been sold 
by the Countess to Peirson, on the 23rd October, 1691. 
This townland appears to have remained in the family just 
over 100 years. On the occasion of a fine and recovery of 
the estate being suffered in Michaelmas term 1795, after my 
grandfather came of age, the parties being Armar Viscount 
Belmore, and the Hon. Somerset Lowry Corry, his eldest son 
and heir, and Mr. David Babington (a solicitor in Dublin). 
Lord Belmore and Mr. Corry acknowledged the premises " to 
be the right of David Babington, as those which the said David 
Babington had the gift of them." In resettling the estate, 
Drummin was left at the absolute disposal of Lord Bel- 
more, most likely with a view to its sale. 

Mr. John Lowr}^ probably did not long survive this 
purchase. His eldest son, Robert, married Anne Sinclair 
of Holyhill county Tyrone, whose mother had been a Miss 

* As John Lowry, Tyrone. 

f It is just possible that this conveyance was made to John Lowry's son, John, 
who died without issue, 

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Galbraith. This marriage, I think, took place in or about 
1698, for in the year 1699 begins a series of entries by Mr. 
Lowry in an old Bible* of his wife's (published during the 
Oomnion wealth), of the days and hours and birthplaces of 
his children, together with entries of the deaths of such of 
them as died young. This series was continued by his 
third son Galbraith, whose own marriage is entered, as is 
also that, by himself, of my great grandfather with Lady 
Margaret Butler, in 1771. 

In 1692 Robert Lowry, John Lowry 's eldest son, who 
was one of the Commissioners of escheated lands in 
Tyrone and Armagh, and who appears to have resided at 
Caledon in the county Tyrone, took a lease for thirty-one 
years (if the lessor's title should so long continue) from 
George and John Warburfcon of the city of Dublin, of the 
lands of Killygivin and Tullynecalgan, in the barony of 
Dungannon, to commence from 1st May, 1693. He was to 
pay £6 a year rent for the first ten years, £8 for the second 
ten years, and £12 for the remainder of the term. 

In 1697, however, he was enabled to purchase this pro- 
perty. 

A lease for a year, dated, 2-ith June, 1697, was followed 
the next day by a release, which recites an indenture, 
dated 16th April, 1685, between Robert Parkhurst one of 
the executors of Sir Robert Parkhurst knight deceased, 
surviving executor of Sir Robert Parkhurst knight deceased, 
who was surviving executor of Alderman Robert Parkhurst 
deceased of the one part ; and George and John Warburton 
of the other ; aud further amongst other things that Sir 
Robert Parkhurst was indebted to the said George and 
John in the sum of £570 ; and, likewise, was indebted to 
some others in divers sums of money, to whom the said 
George and John are bound together with the said Robert 
Parkhurst as his security ; and it likewise recites that 
Bryan M'Henry, Oge O'Neill, and Phelim O'Neile after- 
wards Sir Phelim O'Neile, and Robert Hovenden, did on 
26th April 1633 acknowledge before the mayor and con- 
stables of the town of Drogheda, a statute staple for pay- 
ment of £2,000 to the said Alderman Parkhurst fee., and 
was actually put in possession of the lands of Killygivin 
alias Killygivilly, and Tullynecolpin alias Tully, and was 
then in possession of them at certain value, at which they 
were extended to the said Robert Parkhurst for the speedier 
payment of the £570 ; and for other considerations men- 
tioned in the said deed, sold to the said George and John 

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Warburton amongst other things, the towns of Killygivin 
and Tullynecolgan with their appurtenances, which were 
so delivered to him in execution &c ; to hold the same 
during all such interest as he had in them, by virtue of 
which George and John entered into possession of the 
premises ; and further that Henry Hovenden son and heir 
of Robert Hovenden one of the cognizors of the said estate, 
to whom the fee and inheritance of the said land belonged, 
by deed of lease dated 28th February, and of release dated 
1st March 1693 between himself and Stephen Ludlow, for 
the consideration therein mentioned, granted Killygivin and 
Tullynecolpin to Stephen Ludlow and his heirs ; and that 
whereas Ludlow's name was only mentioned in trust for 
the Warburtons, the indenture witnesseth that George and 
John Warburton and Stephen Ludlow for the consideration 
of £100 did grant the lands to Robert Lowry, to hold the 
same for ever. 

On the 29th March, 1700, Robert Lowry obtained a lease 
for a year, and on the 30th March a release from John 
Hamilton of Caledon esq., for the consideration of £450, of 
the townland of Aghenis near Caledon, together with about 
eight acres in Loughmacnab. To this was attached liberty 
for Robert Lowry and his undertenants to cut turf on the 
turf bog of Bally boy being a sessiagh of Aghenis, to be 
spent on the land, and also of grazing on the said bog, 
and on the turf bog joining to the townland of Dromess in 
the parish of Aghaloo barony of Dungannon, excepting out 
of the grant the royalties and the two bogs themselves, 
except the right of cutting turf on the one, and grazing on 
both; but granting all houses woods underwoods &c. 
Mr. Lowry and his tenants were to do suit and service at 
the manor court of Caledon, and to grind their corn at and 
pay mulcture to the mill there, provided there was sufficient 
water &c. ; and he was also to pay £3 18s. 6fd either 
directly to the Crown, or at his option through Mr. Hamil- 
ton. This is signed by John Hamilton, in presence of 
David M'Clenahan John Gamble Robert Maxwell Hugh 
Brown. 

Upon this townland Mr. Lowry and his son Galbraith, 
and his grandson Armar had their seat, until the latter 
succeeded his mother at Castlecoole in 1779. It was 
intended that my grandfather, the son of Armar, should 
have lived there after his marriage, but his father's death 
rendered this arrangement unneccessary. The house fell 
into decay, and became the abode of a colony of beggars, 
until Aghenis was sold in 1852 to Lord Caledon's trustees. 

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Melbury, where Mr. Robert Lowry the younger resided, 
was in Loughmacnab, in which townland it would appear, 
by his will, that he had a larger interest than his father 
had possessed. 

The Caledon estate remained in the Hamilton family 
until it came into possession of Miss Hamilton who married 
the Earl of Cork and Orrery. It was sold towards the end 
of the century to the ancestor of the present Earl of 
Caledon, having been it is said, previously offered to Sir 
James Stronge's ancestor for £70,000, and to Lord Belmore 
for £90,000. It must now be an estate producing a large 
rental. 

From the small beginning with Killygivin, Robert Lowry 
the elder accumulated a great landed estate. Land was 
cheap in those days, but rapidly rising in value as things 
settled down after the Revolution ; and it was well worth 
while to buy with borrowed money. His purchase of the 
manor of Finagh I have already noticed. This alone con- 
tained a good many thousand statute acres. At some time 
or other the head rent of the townland of Moylagh was 
acquired, either by himself or his son Galbraith. This is 
now paid to me by Major Perry ^PClintock, of Seskar.ore. 

This townland had on 17th December, 1G84, under 
the name of Mullagh, been assigned by Mr. George Mervyn 
of Maynooth county Kildare, to a Mr. James Delap, ot 
Mullagh for £83, and a head rent of £8 sterling, royalties 
being reserved. Mr. Mervyn was, I believe, a successor in 
title of Sir William Ussher. Moylagh is of considerable 
acreage, and is not in Finagh. 

In 1710 Mr. Lowry purchased out the tenant of Doogary, 
which paid head-rent to Fynagh. This townland, situate 
near Omagh and in the diocese of Deny, (all the manor 
except Doogary, Camowan and Lisboy being in Armagh 
diocese,) was, on the 1st of November 1698 the subject of a 
deed between William Robertson of Duggery and Patrick 
Hamilton of Termontomungan. It recites that Sir William 
Ussher had by deed of feofment dated 14th October 1G62, 
sold to Robertson the lands of Duggery estimated at sixty 
acres, for £20, reserving a rent of £3 13s. 4(7. (payable as to 
the manor of Fynagh). 

On the 25th July, 1710 a lease for a year registered by 
memorial, (which must have been followed by a release,) 
conveys Hamilton's interest to Robert Lowry, in whom the 
head -rent was now vested ; the purchase money was £100 — 
just five times what Hamilton had given for it less than 
twelve years before. 



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On the 3rd of July, 1724 Henry Mervyn, esq. of Trillick 
assigned to Robert Lowry for £1,560 and a rent of £2 yearly, 
the townlands of Legacorry, Beagh, and Letfern. These are 
in the manor of Tuckett. The head-rent is no longer paid. 
But under the name of mulcture there is a sum of £7 paid 
for something outside Finagh, to A. Stuart esq., although I 
do not quite know for what. 

As much as Mr. Lowry possessed of Fynagh, (with the 
exception of Achorrow and Corballintackin, which are 
supposed to be represented by the modern townland of Curr 
of the Ordnance map, and to have been sold by a mistake to 
be hereafter alluded to ; and Killadroy, which had been 
omitted from the entail,) together with Doogary, Legacorry, 
Beagh, and Letfern, are still in my possession. Mr. Lcwry 
settled Fynagh on his eldest surviving (but originally his 
second) son Robert, on the occasion of his first marriage with 
Miss KatherineDopping, daughter of the Dean of Clonmacnois. 
But he had also acquired an even larger estate than Fynagh. 
On 3rd November 1713 Mr. Lowry purchased Tattemoney 
fromaMr. Reid for £556, andafurther sum of £165 to Charity 
Drynely. (This appears to have been Mervyn property.) 
On the 7th June 1722, Margaret, Richard, and Mary Hill 
conveyed Recarson to him for £190. On the 26th June, 
1728 he purchased from Mr. Rowley, Oamderry and other 
lands for £1,025 Gs. He had also other townlands of which 
I cannot give the particulars. Amongst others his son 
Robert conveyed to him a townland called Cornebracken, 
but this may have been purchased in trust. 

His will was dated 1729, and he must have died shortly 
afterwards (as his son Galbraith says), at home (Aghenis) of a 
the dropsie. He disposed of his property in the following 
manner : — 

Extracts from Will of Robert Lowry, dated 1729. 

The manor of Sixmilecross having been settled at the marriage 
of his eldest son Robert with Katherine Dopping, he leaves him 
only a legacy of £20. 

He bequeathed in trust to his son-in-law Daniel Eccles, and to 
Alexander M'Clintock as executors, the town and lands of 
(Aghenis) Ballyboy, and about eight acres in the townland of 
Loughmacnab, Killygivan, Tullyancolgan, Lissaaggan, Kiladery, 
Legacorry, Beagh, Letterfearne, Arvallee, Edenderry, the tuck mill 
and corn mill, Garvaghlees, Aghagallon, Mullagh, Cranny, Drum- 
grane, Taltymulmoney, Benefarga, Hallaghan, Hillinana, Cor- 
mackellagher, Lisneadin, Backarrenbeg, Tullyenagh,- and Corne- 
brecken, to his second surviving son Galbraith Lowry for his 
life, with remainder to his heirs male. 



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Failing them to his third surviving son James Lowiy and his 
heirs male, and failing James to Robert, failing male issue of the 
three sons to the eldest daughter of Galbraith and her heirs male, 
failing her to her sisters in succession, and their heirs male. Their 
husbands to take the surname and arms of Lowry. Failing Gal- 
braith's daughters to James's daughters under like condition. To 
James Lowry his third son for life, and his heirs male, the manor 
townlands and ballyboes in Altadesart otherwise Chichester, lying 
and being in the barony of Dungannon. Failing James to Galbraith 
and his heirs male : failing him to Robert and his heirs male. 
To Galbraith, when seized of the aforesaid lands, he gave power to 
charge them with a jointure not exceeding ,£200 per annum ; 
and a further power to Galbraith to charge them with a sum not 
exceeding £2,000 for daughters and younger sons, or daughters if 
no son. 

James also was to have power to charge his lands with £1,000 

To his daughter Isabella he bequeathed £100, to be paid at the 
age of eighteen or day of marriage, and if she married with consent 
of his executors £1,500. In case of her demise before eighteen 
and unmarried, or if she married without consent, Galbraith was 
to take the £1,500. Isabella was to get £50 per annum from 
testator's death until marriage in lieu of interest. To M'Clintock 
he left £100, and further to Galbraith the sum of £2,000 due by D. 
Eccles. 

To his sisters Jane and Anne M'Clintock, and brothers-in-law 
Perry and Moore, the sura of £80 to be divided equally. 

If any part of the personalty was remaining after legacies were 
paid, James was to have £100, and Galbraith to be sole executor 
and residuary legatee. 

In a codicil he revoked the bequest of £1,600 to Isabella, and 
gave her £1,000; to his sister, Jane M'Clintock, £40; his sister, 
Catherine Perry, of Mullaghmore, £40 ; to his sister Anne M'Clin- 
tock, £40 ; to the children of his sister Rebekah Moore, £40 ; to 
his daughter Mary Eccles, £40. 

The sum of £600 taken from Isabella was to discharge these 
latter legacies. 

Mr. Lo wry's widow died " of a decay " at Fintona, the 
residence of her son-in-law, Mr. Eccles 

His eldest son John, who entered Trinity College May 
23rd 1715, but dropped off Feb. 1st 1716, predeceased him in 
1724, and was buried at Saint Mary's, Dublin, having been 
born in 1699. 

There is a picture at Castlecoole, which, from the family 
likeness which it bears to his descendants, I have no doubt 
is that of Robert Lowry senior. 



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CHAPTER III. 

ROBERT LOWRY THE YOUNGER, 1729 TO 17G4-. 

His marriage settlement. — He divides the advowson of Termonmaguirk 

with Viscount Tyrone His second marriage Elected m.p. for 

Strabane. — His will— and death. 

Robert Lowry having divided his estates amongst his 
surviving sons, the eldest by virtue of a settlement at the 
time of his marriage took Fynagh. He had a power of 
jointuring a wife to the extent of £200 a year, and settling 
portions for younger children to the extent of £2,000. 

Failing his issue male, the property was to pass, and 
eventually did pass, to Galbraith his next brother. The 
following is an abstract of the 

Marriage Settlement of Robt. Lowry the Younger. 

"This Indenture quadripartite made this 10th clay of Septem- 
ber, in the year of our Lord 1724, between Robert Lowry the 
elder of Aghenis, in the co. Tyrone, esq., and Robert Lowry the 
younger, esq., eldest son and heir apparent of the said Robert 
Lowry the elder, of the first part ; Hugh Howard, of the citty of 
London, esq., and Alex. M'Clintock, of the citty of Dublin, gent., 
of the second part ; Arthur Weldon, of Raghin, in the Queen's 
county, esq., and David Eccles, of Fintonagh, in the county of 
Tyrone, esq., of the third part; the Rev. Anthony Dopping, 
Dean of Clonmacnois, and Katherine Dopping, eldest daughter of 
ihe said Anthony Dopping, of the fourth part " 

Vests in Hugh Howard and Alex. M'Clintock, in trust for 
the uses and purposes afterwards specified, the following towns, 
&c, &c. : '* *Aghneglea, Anny,*Cully,Corballytacken,*Cavanreagh, 
Cullisker, Cornecammon, *Braghy, *Ballintrane, *Bencrane, Bear- 
agh, Ballyhallaghan, *Drumlister, *Cullagh, being part of Drum- 
lister, *Dirrore, *Dirroren Upper, *Dirroren Lower, Duggery, 
*Druinduffe, Derveraghroy, Killcam, Laragh, Lisboy, *Liskincon, 
*Ramaken, Radergan, Clonenure, Roscavy, Ranelly,Raw,*Tonera- 
gee, Tullyherini, Tattykiran, Uslmagh, *Tullyneel, *Drumshenny, 
and *the town of Ffinagh, alias Sixmilecross, with their and every of 
their appurtenances, together with all courts leet, courts baron, view 
of ffrank-pledge, and all that to them or either of them doth any 
way belong which are to be held and kept within and for the said 
manor, and also all dutys and customs of ffairs and markets to be 
kept within the said mannor and premisses or any part thereof, and 
also all lands, tenements, and hereditaments reputed and taken to 
be part of the said manor, except the lands of Upper Cloghfin, 
Lower Cloghfin, Ballykeel, Aghnagarr, Eskermore, Racarssan, 
and Killydrow, being part or reputed part of the said manor, but 



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are to remain subject to the jurisdiction thereof in the said manner 
as they are at present, and also all right of presentation of him 
the said Robert Lowry the elder, to the moyety of the advowson 
of Termonmaguirk, &c." 

[All the towns north of the Beragh river are marked (*), except 
five tenements in trust (four on the north side of said town, and 
one on the south side) and 2-i acres English in Tullyneale and 
Drumshenny, left with Robert Lowry the elder, for his life, the 
rest with Robert Lowry the younger, for his life, with various 
remainders.] 

In 1731 Mr. Robert Lowry and Lord Tyrone, who had 
succeeded to the moiety of his mother, Nicola Sophia Lady 
Beresford (who, after Sir Tristram's death, remarried Colonel 
Georges, and died on a certain birthday as foretold by Lord 
Delapeor's ghost), agreed to divide the advowson of Termon- 
maguirk into two equal parishes. This was of course effected 
by an Order in Council. The agreement is a curious one, 
and I subjoin it. 

Articles of Agreement indented, had, made and concluded on 
between The Rt. Hon. Marcus Lord Viscount Tyrone of the 
one part, and Robert Lowry of Loughmacnab, in the county 
of Tyrone, Esq., of the other part. 

Whereas, the said Marcus Lord Viscount Tyrone is seized 
in tail as tenant in common of one moiety of the advowson of the 
rectory and vicarage of Termonmaguirk, in the diocese of Ardmagh, 
and county of Tyrone, aforesaid, now vacant by the death of Dr. 
Richard Crump, the late Incumbent thereof, and the said Robert 
Lowry is by virtue of a settlement made upon his marriage by 
Robert Lowry, Esq., his father since deceased, seized for life in 
common of and in the other moiety thereof, with remainder to 
his first and every other son in tail male with other remainder 
soever, now it is consented, concluded and agreed by and between 
the said parties for them, their heirs, executors and administrators 
respectively, that the said rectory and vicarage, and all the tythes, 
glebes, profits and emoluments, thereunto belonging shall be 
divided, into two equal separate and distinct parishes, and that 
the advowson of one of the said parishes from and after the said 
division shall and may remain to the said Marcus Lord Viscount 
Tyrone, and his heirs and assigns for ever in severalty, and the 
advowson of the other to the said Robert Lowry and his issue 
male and the several other persons in remainder, by and under 
the said settlement according to such uses and estates as are 
thereby limited to them of the said undivided moiety. And it is 
further consented, concluded and agreed by and between the said 
partvs to these presents, and they the said Marcus Lord Viscount 
Tyrone and Robert Lowry do for themselves respectively and for 
their several and respective heirs, executors and administrators, 



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covenant, promise and grant to and with each other and their 
respective heirs executors and administrators of the other, by 
these presents, that in the meantime and until such division shall 
be accomplished, they the said Marcus Viscount Tyrone and 
Robert Lowry shall and will on or before the tenth day of this 
instant April, joyntly and in cine form of law by a proper 
instrument in writing, to be by them executed for that purpose, 
present the Rev. Charles Este, Archdeacon of Ardmagh, to the 
said rectory and vicarrage, to the end that he may be admitted 
and instituted thereto by His Grace the Lord Archbishop of 
Ardmagh, Primate and Metropolitan of all Ireland, and inducted 
therein, and that they the said Marcus Lord Viscount Tyrone, 
and Robert Lowry, shall and will on or before the first day of 
December next, execute such deed or other instrument in writing 
under their hands and seals, in due form of law, and do and 
execute all other acts and things necessary for them and each of 
them to do, for further declaring and manifesting their consent 
and agreement to have the said rectory and vicarrage divided 
into two equal and distinct parishes, or rectories, and for making- 
such division effectual in such manner as the same can or may be 
done, and that when the said parish of Termonmaguirk is so 
divided, the said Marcus Lord Viscount Tyrone shall and may 
hold and enjoy the advowson, and right of patronage and 
presentation of one of the said new erected parishes, and the said 
Robert Lowry and his issue male, and all others claiming or 
deriving under the said settlement, shall have, hold and enjoy 
the advowson, right of patronage and presentation of the other 
of the said new erected parishes in severalty, according to 
his and theire several respective estates, rights and interests of, 
in and to the said undivided moiety, by virtue of the said 
settlement, in liew and full satisfaction of all his and their 
right and title to the said undivided moiety, and that after the 
said division shall be made in manner aforesaid, the said Robert 
Viscount Tyrone and Robert Lowry shall cast lotts for the same 
in manner following, (that is to say). The name of each 
of the new erected parishes shall be wrote on a seperate scrole of 
parchment, roll'd up and put into a hatt, to be held by an indiffe- 
rent person, to be chosen between the partys to these presents for 
that purpose ; and that the said Marcus, Lord Viscount Tyrone 
and Robert Lowry shall each put his hand into the said hatt, and 
take thereout one of the said scroles, and that the advowson of 
that parish which shall be mentioned in the said scrole of parch- 
ment to be drawn or taken out of the said hatt, by the said Lord 
Viscount Tyrone, shall stand and be the advowson of the said 
Lord Viscount Tyrone, his heirs and assigns, for ever; and that 
the advowson of that parish mentioned in the said scrole of parch- 
ment which shall be drawn or taken out of the said hatt by the 
said Robert Lowry, shall stand and be the advowson of the said 
Robert Lowry, and his issue, and of such other person or persons 



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as shall be entitled thereto claiming by, from, or under them, or 
under the said Lord Yiscount Tyrone and Robert Lowry, and 
their several heirs and assigns, and all other persons claiming by, from, 
or under them, or under the said Robert Lowry deceased, shall 
and will for ever abide and stand by such lott as aforesaid, and 
that within six calendar months after such determination made 
by lott as aforesaid, all and every such assurances and convey- 
ances shall be punctually executed by the said partys for establish- 
ing and confirming the said division, and the said several new 
erected advowsons to each of them respectively according to such 
lott, at the joint expences and charges of the said Marcus Lord 
Viscount Tyrone and Robert Lowry, as by the learned council of 
the said partys shall be advised. And the said Lord Yiscount 
Tyrone and Robert Lowry do for themselves and for their several 
heirs, executors, and administrators, respectively covenant, grant, 
and agree to and with each other, that if either of them shall, 
within the space of seven years after the said division shall be 
made and the said lotts drawn, request any further assurance for 
further securing and affirming his title to the said advowson so 
fallen to his lott as aforesaid, then the other party shall and will, 
at the cost and charges in the law, of such party so requesting 
the same, make, do, and execute, or cause or procure to be made, 
done, or executed, all and every such further and other lawful 
and reasonable act and acts, thing and things, assurance and 
assurances in the law whatsoever, for the further better and 
more effectual and perfect assuring of the said part or advowson 
so fallen by lott to such party requesting the same, as shall by 
such party or his or their council in the law be reasonably 
devised or advised. And further that the party to whose lott 
the new erected parish shall fall within which the church now 
being in the said parish of Termomaguirk stands, he, his heirs, 
executors, administrators, or assigns shall and will, within one 
year from and after the division made and lotts drawn, pay or 
cause to be paid to the other party, his heirs, executors, adminis- 
trators, or assigns, the sum of Twenty Pounds sterling towards 
erecting and building a church in some part of the new erected 
parish wherein no church shall then be. Provided, nevertheless, 
and it is hereby further declared, covenanted, concluded, and agreed, 
before such division is completed, that in case the title of the said 
Marcus, Lord Yiscount Tyrone to the moiety of the said advowson 
shall be evicted by Richard Gorges, esq., or any other person, then 
and in such case the said presentation of the said Charles Este shall 
not be deemed, taken, or mentioned to be the turn of the said 
Robert Lowry, or that his turn to presentation to the said rectory 
or vicarage was or is thereby satisfied, but that (notwithstanding 
the same) the said Robert Lowry, and his issue, and all and 
every other person and persons deriving under the said settlement 
shall have and enjoy his and their turn of presenting to the said 
rectory and vicarage, as if the said presentation of the said Charles 



2? 

Este had never been made or joined in by the said Robert Lowry, 
anything hereinbefore mentioned to the contrary in anywise not- 
withstanding. In witness whereof the party s aforesaid have here- 
nnto put their hands and seals, this second day of April, in the 
year of Our Lord one thousand seven hundred and thirty one. 

Signed, Tyrone. Robert Lowry. 

And sealed with their respective arms. 

The portion of the parish now known as Clogherny, 
from the name of the townland on which the church — one 
of the oldest in that part of the country, — where no churches 
are really old in the English sense is situate, — fell to Mr. 
Lowry' s share. 

In 1732 he presented his brother James to the advowson ; 
who held it until 1745, when he exchanged with Dr. Dobbs 
for Desertcreight, situate near his own property. 

From the Rev. James Lowry are descended Robert Lowry 
esq., of Pomeroy House, and his brother, John Lowry esq., 
of Eccles-street Dublin; Major-General Lowry c.B., and 
Lieutenant-Colonel Lowry of Rochdale, Commanding the 
Donegal Militia Artillery, and late Captain R. A. ; and many 
others. 

In 1775 James' son John was presented to Clogherny by 
Armar Lowry Corry, and held it till 1794, when he resigned 
and was succeeded by his son James, who was presented by 
the same person, then become Lord Belmore This Rev. James 
Lowry, greatly enlarged the glebe house which he called 
" Somerset," and which had been commenced by his father. 

In 1828 the advowson of Clogherny was sold by my 
grandfather to Trinity College for £14,000, more than double 
the purchase-money of the manor and moiety of the advow- 
son. Mr. Lowry, however, lived till 1852, and in 1853 the 
College made their sole presentation to it, in the person of 
the Rev. R. V. Dixon, D.D., Ex-Fellow T.C.D , the present 
Rector, to whose valuable assistance I am so much indebted 
in collecting information for this part of my work. 

The College received £11,701 2s. 8cl from the Church 
Temporalities Commissioners, for the loss of their advowson 
owing to the passing of the Irish Church Act. 

Lord Tyrone's share was the parish still called Ternion- 
maguirk. In 1870 the income was not so large as that of 
Clogherny, and the compensation was consequently less. 

The late Lord Primate, Lord John Beresford, was for a 
time Rector of Termonmaguirk, and during part of the time 
also Dean of Clogher. He used occasionally in LS02 to 
ride over from Clogher to Six-mile-cross church to perform 



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the service. Dr. Dixon's commuted annuity £1,563 14s. id. 
was the largest awarded to any clergyman in Ireland. 

Mr. Robert Lowry married secondly a daughter of Arch- 
deacon Hamilton. He represented the borough of Strabane 
in the Irish Parliament for some time (from 1761 to 1764), 
and died without issue Aug. 31st 1764 aged sixty- one, 
having been born 3rd Feb., 1702. On the 16th April 1764 
it was ordered by the House of Commons, that Robert 
Lowry esq., a member of this House, have leave to go into 
the country for a month for the recovery of his health. The 
session was prorogued in May, 1764. A new writ was issued 
for the borough of Strabane in his room, the 22nd Oct., 
1765. He was succeeded by George Montgomery, esq. 
By his will dated 24th February 1764, he desired that his 
body might be buried privately in any churchyard most 
contiguous to the place where he should happen to die, and 
that not more than £20 should be expended on his funeral. 
He left £300 to his sister Isabella Crawford, free from the 
disposal of her husband, with power to leave it by will to 
such of her children as she should then think proper. He 
left to his brother the Rev. James Lowry, the town and 
lands of Aghaghmore, purchased from Francis Crawford, also 
Aughnamoy, Tattakeel, Botairy, Tamlaght, and Corna- 
bracken, purchased from the late Henry Mervyn, and also 
one moiety and three-fifth parts of the other moiety of 
* Bracky with the corn-mill and the grist toll, mulcture or 
succon thereof, purchased from the Kyles by John M'Clintock 
and John Perry in trust for him, also his interest in Lough- 
macnab otherwise t Melbury, Derrycantone, and Knocka- 
ginny, with all their rights kc. for ever. He made his 
brother James his sole executor and residuary legatee of all 
his goods, chattels, plate, jewels, and all other his real and 
personal estate whatsoever. 

* Bracky pays a head-rent to the Manor of Finagh. It is now owned by 
Colonel Lowry. 

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CHAPTER IV. 

GALBKAITH LOWRY, SOMETIME LOWRY-CORRY, 1729-69. 

His marriage and children — Specimens of leases — His purchases of 

land Cases and opinions of Mr. Anthony Malone and Mr. 

Grattan. — Election memoranda, &c. — His will. 

Galbraith Lowry was the third, but second surviving son 
of Mr. Robert Lowry senior. He was born on the 11th July 
1706, and consequently at the time of his father's death must 
have been under age. He graduated B.A., in Trinity College, 
vern : 1728. By his will as before mentioned, his father 
bequeathed to him a considerable estate in Tyrone, including 
Aghenis and (probably), the townland of Drummin in co 
Armagh. He was also in remainder to the Manor of Finagh 
which he inherited in 1764, on his brother Robert's death 
without issue. In 1738 he married Miss Sarah Corry, the 
second daughter of Colonel John Corry of Castlecoole, and 
sister of Leslie Corry the then owner of that property. He 
exercised the power reserved to him under his father's will, by 
settling, or agreeing to settle upon his wife £200 a year (which 
appears to have been a common jointure at that time for a 
country gentleman's wife,) and £2,000 upon daughters or 
younger sons. By Sarah Corry he had seven children, viz. 
(1.) Robert who was born the 19th Aug. 1734, died in Dublin, 
and was buried at St Mary's; (2.) John born 13th Sept., 1735, 
died at Castlecoole 1752, and was buried at Derryvullen ; 
(3.) Sarah born 17th May 1738, and died young ; (4.) Armar 
born 7th April, 1740, and was created a peer as Baron 
Belmore in 1781. From this son are descended, besides 
myself, two other peers, viz. the Earl of Sandwich and Lord 
Rowton. (5.) Anna, born 24th June, 1742, and married 
3rd Nov, 1763 to the Hon. William Willoughby Cole, after- 
wards second Lord Mount Florence and first Earl of Ennis- 
killen. From her are descended besides the Earl of Ennis- 
killen, Earl Cowper, k.g., the present Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland, Earl de Grey the heir apparent to the Marquisate of 
Ripon, and the eldest son of Viscount Crichton, heir to the 
Earldom of Erne. (6.) Sarah Corry born October, 1745 died 
1746, (7.) Mary born 2nd July 1748, and died 1774. In 
1747-8 Mr. Lowry took his seat as Member of Parliament for 
Tyrone, and continued to serve in the two following Parlia- 
ments until shortly before his death, when he was succeeded 
by his son Armar. There is a picture of him at Castlecoole, 
in a snuff coloured coat and a wig. He appears to have 
been a precise man of business. 



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I have an old rent book, or rather collection of scraps of 
paper stiched up with a roll of parchment. The rents had 
been collected by his father, who apparently followed the not 
very safe practice of taking money from tenants on account. 
Galbraith Lowry has endorsed the roll as worthy of his son's 
attention, as showing what the lands fetched in his father's 
time. There is also a somewhat similar roll of his own: only 
Beagh Letfern and Legacorry however, (with the head-rent 
of Moylagh), appear in it of lands which still belong to me ; 
my estate consisting mainly of the Manor of Finagh. ( Vide 
App. P). 

It may be interesting to show the nature of the leases 
granted on these estates at this period. I have the counter- 
part of one dated 3rd December 1740, bj 7 Robert Lowry 
(the elder brother), of Lower Laragh, part of a townland 
on his Fynagh estate, to the Rev. Joseph Hemphill,* for 
three lives, viz. — the lessee, his wife, and his eldest son, or 
the longest liver of them. The rent was £10 8s. Royalties 
were reserved ; corn was to be ground in the manor mill. 
The tenant was not to alienate without the consent in 
writing of the landlord. If he did so without such consent 
his rent was to be increased by £7 a year ; but he might 
underlet to cottiers weavers or day labourers without such 
consent. This shows that weaving was a staple industry 
in that part of the country. It has now quite disappeared. 
I have also the counterpart of a lease purporting to be 
granted on the Legacorry portion of the estate, on the 10th 
January 1767, by Galbraith and Armar Lowry Cony, (but 
only signed by the former), to David Reed, Robert Clerk, 
James Reed, and Samuel Dunlop, for two lives, viz. — James 
Reed the lessee, and John Barr aged 28. The rent was £22 
10s., and six days' duty work, nine pecks of shillen or thirteen 
shillings, twelve hens or six shillings, twenty perches of ditch- 
ing or £1, to plant sixty trees or pay £l, to ditch the farm 
into four five or six-acre parks, to plant an oak ash, English 
elm or a sycamore tree on the ditches, one at every twelve 
feet apart ; to grind at the Beagh mill; not to alienate except 
to wife orchild;and to attend the courts-leet and courts-baron 
of the manor of Tuckett. The tenants agreed each to hold 
what they formerly held, and never to claim survivorship. 
On a separate paper Mr. Lowry Cony made a memorandum 
that he had on the 21st February 17G7, set to Teague, 
O'Donelly, and Hugh Mageny, from the 25th March last, 
one-fourth of Legacorry for thirteen years at £7 10s. a year. 
Teague O'Donelly held one-third, and Hugh Magerry 

* Mr. Hemphill was the Presbyterian Minister of the district. 



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two-thirds, of the above. This memorandum is in his son 
Armar Lowry Corry's handwriting. 

It will be seen that this lease and memorandum are very 
loosely drawn ; the quantities appear to be vaguely expressed, 
and there are no conditions for good husbandry, which, 
indeed, was no doubt an unknown science, then and for long 
afterwards. 

As will be seen from the second part of this work, Mr. 
Galbraith Lowry in L741, inherited under Leslie Corry's 
will his lands in the county of Monaghan, and in or about 
1764 his wife, on the death of her brother-in-law Mr. 
Edmond Leslie Corry, inherited under her father's will her 
elder sister's estate in the counties of Longford and Fer- 
managh. 

Mr. Lowry was elected M.P. for Tyrone in the winter of 
1747-8, succeeding Henry Mervyn, esq. He represented 
the county for about twenty years. His first colleague was 
William Stewart, esq. 

Mr. Galbraith Lowry made considerable purchases of land 
during his tenancy of the estates ; but in the absence of a 
good list of deeds for the Tyrone estate, it cannot now be 
ascertained with precision what amount he invested in this 
way. These lands have since been sold, and although I 
have a considerable number of deeds relating to them, I 
cannot obtain from them anything but fragmentary infor- 
mation. On the 7th November, 1735, he appears to have 
bought from Messrs. Stewart and M'Clintock for £604 
14s. 7d., the townlands of Campsey Crevenagh and 
Galbaily ; also five shillings a year out of Tattykeel. On 
October 5th, 1736, he bought certain lands in the parish of 
Dromore, at I know not what price, from Mr. Mervyn ; and 
on the 30th September 1741, Driminey and other lands 
from Mr. Mervyn and others, for which he paid in all 
£899. 

The following case, and opinion of the Prime Sergeant, 
Mr. Anthony Malone,* throws some light on the matter of 
Mr. Lowry's acquisitions. 

Case. 

1675, August 3. Sir Audly Mervyn being seized of the 
manors ofTonchet, Stoy, and Arlestown, and also of several other 
lands in the county of Tyrone, executes a settlement of this date 
whereby he limits the aforesaid mannors to Henry, his eldest son, 
and the heirs males of his body, with several remainders over, and 

* Afterwards the Right Hon. Anthony Malone. He was m.p. for Westmeath 
county. 



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also by the same settlement limits several lands to Hugh and 
George, his two youngest sons, and the heirs males of their res- 
pective bodys, with several remainders over, and soon after 
died. 

1684, December 1 8. Henry being seized of the aforesaid mannors 
on the marriage of Audly, his eldest son, with Olivia Coote, 
executes a settlement of this date whereby he limits the said 
mannors to the said Audly for life, remainder to his first and every 
other son in tail with remainders over. Audly named as a party, 
but did not execute this settlement. Henry died in 1699, but no 
recovery was suffered to barr the remainders in the settlement of 
1675. 

1711, December 6. Audly had issue by Olivia several sons and 
daughters, and on the marriage of Henry, his eldest son, with 
Mary Tichborn, executes a settlement of all the aforesaid mannors 
and limits them to Henry, his son, for life, remainder to the first 
and every other son of Henry by the aforesaid Mary in tail, re- 
mainder to his the said Auclly's own right heirs for ever. There 
is a covenant in this deed that Audly and Henry should levy a fine 
and suffer a recovery, which was accordingly done. 

Hugh Mervyn, the second son of Sir Audly, sold a great part 
of the lands limited to him by the settlement of 1675 to the afore- 
said Audly, his nephew. 

1717, June 15. Audly being seized in fee of the lands so pur- 
chased by him from Hugh, made his will, and thereby devised the 
said lands so by him purchased, and all other lands, tenements, 
and hereditaments whereof he was seized in fee-simple to his wife 
Olivia in trust for payment of his debts, and as to such part as 
should remain unsold, to the use of his second son Audly for life, 
remainder to his first and every other son in tail, remainder to 
James, his third son, for life, remainder to his first and every other 
son in tail, remainder to Theophilus, his fourth son, and his sons 
in tail, remainder to Henry, his eldest son, and his sons in tail, 
remainder to his four daughters in tail, as tenants in common, re- 
mainder to his nephews, Mervyn Archdall and Henry Car v in fee. 
Audly died soon afterwards, and Olivia became possessed of the 
lands devised. 

Olivia died in 1720 without selling. On her death, Audly, the 
second son, became possessed of the lands devised by his father, 
and in order to pay his father's debts, in 1727 and 1729 sold part 
of those lands to Eobert and Galbraith Lowiy. On this sale Mr. 
Lowry desired to have several deeds relating to the title delivered 
up to him, and amongst the rest the settlement of 1675. Mr. 
Mervyn objected to this, as he had a considerable estate under the 
same title, which remained unsold. But it was then agreed that 
the settlement should remain in the hands of Alexander 
M'Clintock, who was then agent, and common friend to both 
parties. 

Henry Mervyn, after the death of his father and mother, having 
no issue, and being advised that the reversion in fee, which waa in 



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the father by the settlement in 1711 descended to him, sold several 
parts of the estate comprised in that settlement. The aforesaid 
flobert Lowry, Galbraith Lowry, Alexander M'Clintock, and 
several other persons became purchasers of part of the lands from 
Henry, from 1724 to 1735. 

All the sons of Audly the elder died without issue before the 
year 1748. Then the daughters became possessed of those lands 
which remained unsold, and were devised and limited to them by 
their father's will. 

The daughters, after the death of their brothers, set up a title 
to the whole estate settled on Henry by the deed of 1711, and 
pretended that the reversion in fee being in their father by that 
settlement was devised and limited over to them by the will in 
1717. 

In order to try their title, they brought an ejectment for part of 
the lands, to which Dr. Hudson, a purchaser under Henry, took 
defence, and the cause came on to be tried at Bar in the Common 
Pleas, in Michaelmas Term, 1750. At that time M'Clintock had 
in his hands both the settlement of 1675 and 1684, and produced 
the latter for the defendant, by which it appeared that Audly, the 
testator, was only tenant for life. The plaintiff, knowing that he 
(M'Clintock) had also the settlement of 1675 in his hands, called 
upon Mm to be examined, and upon his saying that that settle- 
ment was left in his hands in trust for Mr. Lowry, councill in 
behalf of Mr. Lowry objected against his being any farther 
examined touching that deed, or be obliged to produce it, which 
objection was allowed by the Court, and thereupon the plaintiffs 
suffered themselves to be non-suited. 

The use the plaintiffs intended to make of that settlement, was 
to show that Henry was only tenant in tail at the time of the 
settlement in 1684, and as no recovery was suffered by him, the 
whole estate on suffering the recovery in 1711 vested in Audly. 

In order to get these settlements out of M'Clintock's hands a 
bill is filed, in which the daughters, and also Arthur Mervyn, son 
and heir of Hugh, are plaintiffs against M'Clintock, Lowry, and 
several of the purchasers under Henry. By this bill the plaintiffs 
offer to confirm the purchases made by Galbraith Lowry and his 
father from Audly of Hugh's estate. The bill charges that 
M'Clintock, at the time the settlement was left in his hands, was 
trustee for Audly the vendor, and his family, as well as for Mr. 
Lowry, and it is interrogated whether he doth not consider him- 
self as such. There is no answer as yet put in by the defendants 
to this bill, but defendant M'Clintock must admit that he, at the 
time the settlement of 1675 was left with him, did consider him- 
self as trustee for both parties, for at several times afterwards he 
permitted Audly to have the use of the settlement, and o-ave 
coppys of it to him or his order. 

As this settlement may be of use to Lowry and M'Clintock in 
defending their title to the lands purchased from Henry, the 

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question is, whether M'Clintock hath a right to retain it in his 
hands, not only to serve himself, but also to serve Mr. Lowry, and 
if he has such right, whether he may not retain it for the use of 
other purchasers under Henry. 

It is said that the daughters will confirm M'Clintock's title to 
the lands purchased by him from Henry, but if this should be the 
case, and that the plaintiffs offered it by their bill, may he not still 
insist on retaining it for Mr. Lowry and the other purchasers % 

What power has G. Lowry over the deed of 1675, which, by 
Mr. M'Clintock's answer, was lodged in trust with him for Audly 
Mervyn as well as for E. Lowry 1 Can the said G. Lowry retain 
it in Mr. M'Clintock's hands untill his purchase under Henry as 
well as that under Audly is secured % Or can he make any use of 
said deed to serve the purchasers under said Henry Mervyn? 
Will the Court allow the defendants the use or benefit of said 
deed % Mr. Lowry knows nothing of the lodging of said deed but 
as related by Mr. M'Clintock. 

OPINION. 

I have considered this case, and am of opinion, as Mr. 
M'Clintock now declares and must confess in his answer, that the 
settlement of 1675 was lodged in his hands as well in trust for Mr. 
Mervyn, the vendor, as for Mr. Lowry, the purchaser, and as the 
co-heirs by their bills offer to confirm the purchases then made, in 
consequence of which the said deed was so lodged, that Mr. 
M'Clintock will be obliged to lodge the said settlement in Court, 
or to produce it for the benefit of the representatives of Mr. 
Mervyn, the aforesaid vendor, and that it will not be in the power 
of Mr. Lowry by any act of his to prevent it, or to oblige Mr. 
M'Clintock to detain it for the purpose of defending or establishing 
the subsequent purchases made from Henry Mervyn. 

The 10th of June, 1755. 
Ant. IN [alone. 
A Copy. 

I have also in my possession a case, with an autograph 
opinion of Mr. Grattan's, dated 14th June, 1763. 

It is endorsed. " A case. R. Kane. To Mr. Recorder. 
Fee two gs., to be given in Court next Friday." 

The case asks whether Archdeacon Storey is compellable 
to, or can safely pay off a sum of £1,800, charged on certain 
lands which he had bought in 1754 from Mr. Humphrey 
Galbraith, during that gentleman's lifetime and the mino- 
rity of some of his younger children who had an interest 
therein under the marriage settlement of the said Humphrey 
and Catherine Galbraith. The opinion is in the negative. 
As the lands are not specified, I can only conclude that it re- 
lates to some lands subsequently purchased by Mr. Lowry. 



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Mr. Lovvry was also interested jointly with Thomas Glecl- 
stanes esq., in an estate in Donaghadee and Monterloney of 
which a survey exists made by a Mr. Starel in 1750. This 
appears to have been what would be called a mountain estate, 
with some better land intermixed. It consisted of the lands 
of Attichicane, Belox Tyrhell, Benbury Tyrhell, Clogin Tyr- 
hell, Carichagean, Myndamph, Legeloghfin, Aughboy,Woagh- 
terdourish, M'Noorane, Glenga, Bradhiel, Bacheden, Eden, 
and Leaghtenadoochussy; and contained in all 10,997a. 
1r. 8r, Irish plantation measure. 

But few incidents of Mr. Lowry's life are on record. I 
have a curious old pocket book of his, containing an almanac 
for 1764, with a high-tide table of Irish, British, and some 
European ports, a regal table, and a table of post towns in 
Ireland. To the majority of these the post was twice a 
week, to others three times a week. Single letters from 
certain marked towns were 2d., from other towns id. There 
is also a table of carriage rates in and round Dublin for set- 
downs at various places. 

It concludes as follows : — 

The rate of said chaises by the day to be 3s. 3d. And by 
the hour Sd. for the first hour, and id. every hour after. For 
more than seven miles to be hired by agreement. All persons 
having complaints against the owners or drivers of carriages, 
should in fourteen days after any offence committed, have the 
party summoned by the Register at his office in the Workhouse. 

Amongst the explanatory notes is the following : — 
lUf" " Days on which the Act against profane cursing and swear- 
ing may be read in Churches and Chapels. A child, for swearing, 
to be whipt by the constable, or by the parent in the constable's 
presence." 

The days so marked are : — 

6th Sunday after Epiph, 12th February. 
2nd Sunday after Easter, 6th May. 
8th Sunday after Trinity, 12th August. 
21st Sunday after Trinity, 11th November. 

In this book are some entries about, and a receipt for 
" wheels," which seem to show that Mr. Lowry was a 
member of the Linen Board. " No man is to get any before 
Paddy Orr." 

G. L. Corry. 

An entry as follows : — 

Captn. Cole for hearse £5 13s. 9d." 

This perhaps relates to his brother Robert Lowry's funeral. 

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There are also some entries relating to election matters : — 

Yt. I had treated old Mr. Moutray ill, and promised him 
never to joyn Stewart. 

George Baxter, Hugh Mitchell, men yt. may be trusted for 
Mr. Stronge. 

Moses Patterson of Cappy in ye town of Carnony, was 
registered but died about II years ago, his son who is of ye same 
name intends to vote on his father's registry. 

James Dudgeon, Wm, Do. John Hardy. 

I have also a letter, which though not formally addressed 
to Mr. Lowry Corry, bears a pencil memorandum in his 
writing. It is as follows : — 

" Sir, — At your request I have sent you a list of the Freeholders 
that vote for Mr. Knox, there is ninety-five in this estate, and 
out of that there is nineteen that has promised him. I have given 
Mr. Davd. Richardson a List of the Freeholders names and the 
towns they live in, that is on this estate. I should be glad to 
know if this Letter gowes seafe to your hand. 

I remain, Sir, your obliged 

friend and very Humble servant, 

Delany Kingston. 
Fintona, March 12th, 1768. 

" Sam Crawford. Will: Flemming. 
Olifer Crawford. Carmichael. 

John Crawford. John Cocks. 

Sam Crawford, sen. Joseph Wray. 

Alex. Cragimiles. Jo : Orr. 
William Armstrong and father. John Little. 

John Eweance. James Hamilton. 

Alex. M'Kenny. John Hamilton. 

Will : Wilson/ John M'Feeters." 

From the date, this letter was probably written when 
Mr. G. Lowry Corry was about to retire from the represen- 
tation of the county in his son's favour. In fact the last 
session in which he sat in the House of Commons had 
ended the preceding month. 

In 1764 he succeeded under the settlement of 1724, his 
elder brother Robert in the Fynagh estate. 

In or about 1765, and therefore soon after his wife had 
succeeded to the Longford estate hy Edmond Leslie Cony's 
death in 1764, Mr. and Mrs. Lowry, with their son Armar, 
and unmarried daughter Mary, assumed the name of Corry 
in addition to that of Lowry, and quartered the arms. 
His elder daughter Anna, or as she was always called Anne, 
had previously married in 1763 the Hon. W. Cole. For a 



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time they resided in her uncle Robert's house, at Melbury, 
for which Lord Cork granted a thirty-one years' lease, which 
I gave some time ago to Lord Enniskillen. 

Mr. G. L. Corry died on the 28th December 1769. He 
is buried in Caledon churchyard in a vault, (not as he 
directed in his will in the church) but in the churchyard. 
Over it, his widow erected a pyramidical monument built 
apparently by a country mason, and for which I have an 
account. The cost for mason work was if 1 remember 
rightly, about £100. On it is an inscription, that it is erected 
in memory of Galbraith Lowry Corry, esq., who left this 
world for a better,* December 28th 1769, by Sarah Lowry 
Corry, 

The following is an abstract of Galbraith Lowry' s will, 
taken from a stamped copy. It was probably made for Mr. 
Cole, as I only obtained possession of it from Lord Ennis- 
killen about the time that I gave him the lease of Melbury. 

The will is dated May oth 1758. Mr. Lowry bequeathes 
his soul to God, and gives directions for a private funeral in 
the church of Calledon. He recites that by the will of his 
father he had power to charge lands thereby devised, with 
£2,000 for daughters or younger sons, and that by the 
settlement on his marriage with his wife dated 16th Jul}' 
1733, he had agreed to execute the power given him by his 
father; in confirmation thereof he charges the lands so 
devised to him, with the sum of £2,000 to the use of his 
daughters Anne and Mary, to be paid them with interest, 
viz., £1,000 to his daughter Anne on her coming of age or 
day of marriage, with interest in the meantime at the rate 
of 5 per cent. 

The remaining £1,000 he gives to Mary under like condi- 
tions, and if either should die before they are entitled to re- 
ceive these sums, the survivor is to have the share of her so 
dying. He devises to his wife, in addition to her jointure 
(£200 a year) an annuity of £300 payable out of the lands 
of Campson, Upper and Lower Crevenagh, Gal bally, Tate- 
keel, Bryn, Tattecor, Minegar, Glengeen, Rahavny-Foster, 
Drumhirk, Maltenatuinog, Corrylarky, LisdufF, and Rahavny 
Martin, in the county Tyrone. 

In order to make a further provision for his daughter 
Anne, he gives her an annuity of £150 until her marriage 
or death, which shall first happen, payable out of Drum- 
arett East and West, Corlaghdergen, Cavanamore, Rossrey, 
Fartaghmore, Corbally, alias Corwelly, Cornalea, Knock- 

* The "er " is placed over the preceding syllable, the stonecutter having miscalcu- 
lated his distance. 



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nahorn, Oghill, Minisrighan, Aghadarra, Gortnagullin, Aghy, 
Grenan, Corroghamulkin, and Dressoge, in the same county. 
And if his wife Sarah should die before his daughter Anne 
is married, he leaves Anne a further annuity of £100 until 
her marriage, charged on the same lands as her mother's 
annuity. He leaves a like annuity of £150 to Mary till 
marriage, charged on Drumshell, Drumlish, Legfreshy, Derry- 
nasere, Drumsera, Downares, Callow, and Driminey, 

He devises to James Moutray esq. of Favor Royal, and 
Thomas Gledstanes of Hardriss, and to the survivor of 
them, all the aforesaid townlands (subject to the several 
annuities for a term of 900 years), and subject to such term 
and annuities he devises ttie said lands to John Moutray 
and Alexander M'Clintock, of Drumcor county Louth, to 
hold them for ever in trust to the use of his son Armar 
Lowry Corry and his assigns for life, without impeachment 
of waste, (and to preserve contingent remainders), with 
remainder to Armar's first and other sons, and their heirs 
male according to seniority, and in default of such issue to 
the use of Armar's daughters, as tenants in common and 
not as joint tenants ; failing such to the use of Anne Lowry 
for life with like remainders. Failing such issue, to Mary 
Lowry for life with like remainders. Failing such issue, 
to the use of his wife Sarah for life, with remainder to 
John Moutray and Alex. M'Clintock to preserve con- 
tingencies. After the death of his wife, he devises the 
remainder to his brother Robert and his heirs male for 
life ; failing such to his brother James Lowry clerk, for 
life, with a like remainder; failing all these, to his own 
right heirs. 

As to the term of 999 years to James Moutray and Thomas 
Gledstanes, he leaves it in trust, that if his daughter Anne 
shall after his decease marry, with the consent of his wife — 
Margetson Armar — and James Lowry — or any two of them, 
the trustees shall raise the sum (by sale or mortgage, fee), 
of £7,000 and pay her the same within twenty-one days 
after she shall marry. And in case his daughter Mary shall 
marry with like consent, the trustees are to raise £3,000 
for her, and pay her within twenty-one days after her 
marriage. He directs that if his daughter Anne shall marry 
without such consent, or if his son Armar shall die &c., 
before the £7,000 shall be payable to Anne, in that case 
£2,000, part of the £7,000 shall be raised and paid to Mary 
at the time the £3,000 is payable; and that £1,000 more, 
part of the £7,000, shall be raised and paid to his brother 
James Lowry if alive, or if dead to his executors and ad- 



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ministrators, for the use of his (James's) younger children; 
and that the remaining £4,000, part of the £7,000, shall 
merge in the inheritance. If his daughter Mary marries 
without consent or dies unmarried, then £2,000, part of the 
£3,000 provided for her, shall be raised and paid to his 
daughter Anne at the time she shall be entitled to the 
£7,000; and the remaining £1,000 to his brother James if 
alive, or to his executors or administrators if dead, for the 
use of his younger children. If his son Armar shall die 
before attaining the age of twenty-one, so that the estate 
settled by his father's will shall vest and devolve on his 
brother James or any of his children, then the said charges 
of £2,000 to his brother and his children shall cease. If 
his daughters or either of them, shall after his death marry 
without consent, they or either of them that do so, shall 
not take any estate in the lands limited to them, but the 
same shall vest in the person next in remainder. When the 
purposes for which the term of 900 years are answered, the 
same shall vest in the inheritance. 

A power is given to Armar &c, to make leases for a period 
not exceeding twenty-one years or three lives in possession 
and not in reversion. The reserved rent to be payable 
half-yearly, at the best rent that may be had from a solvent 
tenant without fine, and leases to be dispunishable of waste. 

He bequeaths to his wife Sarah, and her heirs and assigns 
for ever, the lands of Laragh and Cornecarrow with the 
mill thereon, Aghnaseragh, the house and garden in the town 
of Monaghan, Kilnacloy, and all his real estate in the 
county Monaghan which were bequeathed to him by her 
brother Leslie Corry. He bequeaths £100 to be paid to 
her immediately after his death, and all his coaches, chariots, 
chaises, with all his coach horses, coach mares, and dairy 
cows, and the use of all his plate, linen, and household 
furniture for her life ; and he leaves the said plate and 
furniture to his son Armar after her death if living; but 
if he dies and leaves issue male, then to his eldest son. He 
leaves his wife all her jewels rings watch and the ornaments 
of her body, and declares the said legacies and jointure 
settled on her at her marriage to be in full of all jointure 
dower or thirds. He leaves the daughters of his sister Isabella 
Crawford £500, to be distributed among them, as his said 
sister should by writing appoint, and his said sister is to 
receive the interest of the £500 at 5 per cent.,* without her 
husband intermeddling. He leaves to Margetson Armar, 
the husband of Mrs. Lowry's sister Mary, as a token of his 

* During her life. 



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love and affection for him, £50. To John Moutray one of 
his saddle horses which he shall choose. To his brother 
James two of his saddle horses or mares which he shall 
choose. To Alexander M'Clintoch £50. To his friend 
Thomas Gledstanes £100. To his overseer John Magee, 
£50 over and above what he should owe him at his death. 
He releases and forgives his labourers and tenants at Aghenis 
and Ballyboy whom he shall have employed at the time of 
his death, such money or rent as they may then owe him. 
And to the intent that all his just debts legacies and funeral 
expenses be justly and honestly paid, he devises to his 
wife — Margetson Armar — and James Lowry his full and un- 
divided moiety of the lands and tenements which he pur- 
chased in partnership with Thomas Gledstanes, and all other 
lands whereof he is seized in fee, except the lands before 
mentioned and settled, and all his leasehold interests for 
lives or years, and all other his personal estate not specially 
devised, in trust that they or the survivor of them their 
heirs, &c, do thereby and thereout pay all his just debts 
legacies and funeral expences, and after that the same shall 
be paid, that the residue shall be appropriated towards the 
exoneration of the estate hereby settled on his son Armar, 
from the several charges with which he has incumbered 
them for his daughters and his brother James. And for 
that purpose he empowers the trustees, &c, to sell and 
dispose of all of the said lands, and to lay out the money 
arising out of such sale, or out of the produce of his personal 
estate at interest, without risk to themselves, and to apply 
such interest in exoneration of said settled estate, and the 
overplus if any to be to the use of his son Arrnar his heirs, 
&c, or in case of his death to the use of his daughter Anne 
her executors, &c. In case his trustees do not choose to sell 
his leasehold interests, he empowers them to renew, and 
pay the fines out of the issues and profits. He constitutes 
and appoints his wife Sarah, Margetson Armar, and James 
Lowry executors of his will, and guardians of the persons 
and fortunes of his son and daughters, and empowers them 
to allow his children respectively, such sums for their 
maintenance and education as they or any of them may 
become entitled to during their minorities. 

Signed, Galbraith Lowry (Seal), in presence of Richard 
Dawson, John Thompson, Br. Noble junior. 

A codicil dated 31st March 1766, recites that by his will 
he had devised to his daughter Anne now the wife of the 
Hon. William Cole, two several sums of £1,000 and £7,000, 
with several annuities for her support until her marriage, 



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or her being entitled to receive the same, and is now so 
happy as to have seen her married with his consent, and has 
given her a portion of £10,000, which he declares to be in 
full of the said several sums so devised to her, and of all 
such as she should be entitled to on her sister's death as 
specified in his will, or under the will of his father 
Robert Lowry deceased, as one of his younger children or 
otherwise ; and instead of the sums of £1,000 and £7,000 
he gives her as a small token of his affection for her, the 
sum of £100, to her husband £50, and to their eldest 
daughter Sarah Elizabeth Cole £100. He revokes and 
annuls the several legacies of £1,000, and £1,000 bequeathed 
to his brother James by his will, and all other legacies which 
he or his children might claim under the said will, and in 
lieu thereof leaves him his best saddle horse or mare, as he 
wishes him well. And he revokes his devise in fee to his 
wife, of his county Monaghan estate, and in lieu thereof 
devises and bequeathes her his house in Sackville-street, 
Dublin, which he purchased from Major Whitelocke, and all 
the furniture which shall be therein at the time of his death. 
He releases her from the payment of any interest during 
her life on the sum of £2,000, a charge on her estate in the 
county of Longford. He recites that by virtue of two deeds 
between him and his son, he was entitled to the reversion 
in fee expectant upon the death of his son without issue, of 
the several estates of which he was then seized and pos- 
sessed by virtue of the will of his father, or by settlement 
on the marriage of his elder brother Robert. Upon such 
contingency he devises the same and all the estate he should 
in that case be entitled to, to his daughter Anne her heirs 
&c, for ever, for her sole use notwithstanding her coverture, 
without being liable to the control of her husband, and 
empowers her to dispose of it by deed or will to one 
or more of her children. He recommends her to leave it to 
a younger son, and make him take the surname of Lowry. 
He bequeathes to John Magee his overseer, a further sum 
of £50 in full of all his or his mother's demands against him, 
and forgives him all he owed him or received of his cash when 
he was in England. He gives to each of his servants, who 
shall actually be in his service at the time of his death, a 
year's wages above what he shall owe them. He bequeathes 
\- to Catherine Low alias Land £10, to James M'Mullen and 
Patrick Murphy £10 each, and to Thomas Leviston £8. He 
revokes the legacy to the labourers at Aghenis and Ballyboy 
(as it might not be equal, in regard some of them might not 
be in his debt), and instead thereof bequeathes to each of them 



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one year's rent or wages. He leaves £10 to the poor of each 
of the five parishes of Dromore, Fentona, Clogherny, Termon, 
and Aghaloo. He nominates and appoints his son Armar 
Lowry Corry his residuary legatee, and he revokes and 
annuls the appointment of his wife, Margetson Armar and 
James Lowry, of being executors of his will ; having since he 
made the said will had experience of the ability and integrity 
of his said son ; and he appoints him his sole executor. 
He orders him to pay yearly to his sister Mary £200 more 
than is in the will during her life, but not to commence 
until after his wife's death, as Mary will have enough till 
then, and as Armar can then spare it. He confirms his will 
in every respect not hereby revoked, and signs it — Galbraith 
Lowry Corry, in presence of Richard Dawson, John 
Thompson, William Robinson. 

This will was proved in the Court of Prerogative, 28th 
June, 1770, by Armar Lowry Corry. 

Mr. Lowry 's sister, Isabella Crawford, was his youngest 
sister. I have a small oil painting at Castlecoole on copper 
of a lady with a high nose like his, with dark hair and eyes, 
which I think may be intended for her. 

Anne, Lady Enniskillen did I believe bequeath her re- 
version as her father appointed, to her second son Sir Gal- 
braith Lowry Cole. This reversion has of course now been 
destroyed by the operation of disentailing deeds. 



CHAPTER V. 

ARMAR LOWRY CORRY, 1769-1779. 

The Gentleman's Beer cations — His receipt for George Canning's Poems — 
His election to Parliament— The division on Pensions — His first 
Marriage — Lady Margaret Corry — His sister Mary's death.— His 
mother's death, by which he united the family estates. 

Armar Lowry was, as has been before stated, the youngest 
but only surviving son of Galbraith Lowry and Sarah his 
wife. He was born at Ahenis on the 7th April, 1740. From 
a large folio book at Castlecoole, called the Gentleman's 
Recreations, which bears the name of the donor, his tutor, it 
appears that that gentleman's name was Roger Dod. This 
is by-the-bye a curious book. The first part contains 
short treatises on several branches of science. The second 
part is devoted to out-door recreations and occupations, 
and is copiously illustrated with curious prints. It wa^ 
published about the beginning of the century . Armar Lowry 
does not appear to have graduated at any university. 



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There has been preserved the title page of a book of 
poems by George Canning, esq. 

The following correspondence concerning it appeared in 
the Times last August: — 

The Father of George Canning. 
To the Editor of the Times. 

" Sir, — In your biographical account of the late Lord Stratford 
de Redcliffe you mention the eldest son of Stratford Canning, of 
Garvagh, ' George, of the Middle Temple,' who ' was father of 
George Canning, afterwards Premier,' and who was uncle of the 
late Lord Stratford de Redcliffe. 

" I have before me an old slip of paper resembling the title 
page of a book. One side is printed as follows : — ' To be printed 
by subscription. Poems by George Canning, esq., student in the 
Middle Temple. London, April, 1762.' On the other side is as 
follows : — ' The work, which is now ready for the press, shall be 
delivered to the subscribers next September. Their names shall 
be prefixed.' Then, on the lower part of the page, is a printed form 
of receipt, with a blank for the subscriber's name : — ' Received 
from Armar Lowry, esq. (afterwards first Earl Belmore) one 
guinea, being the full satisfaction for the above-mentioned poems. — 
G. Canning.' The signature ' G. Canning' is in a fine round copy- 
book sort of hand. The subscriber's name is evidently filled in by 
a different hand and with paler ink. 

" Was George Canning of the Middle Temple probably the same 
person as the author of the poems, and is anything now known of 
the work 1 

" Yours obediently, 

" Belmore." 
To the Editor of the Times. 

" Sir, — George Canning, who is mentioned by Lord Belmore in 
his letter in the Times of to-day, was admitted a member of the 
Middle Temple on the 23rd June, 1752, and was called to the Bar 
on the 23rd of November, 1764. 

" He is described in the books of the society as the son of Stratford 
Canning, of Garvagh, in the county of Londonderry. 

" George Canning, who was the father of the Right Hon. George 
Canning, published a 4 to volume of poems in 1767, and also a 
translation of the Anti-Lucretius. 

" Yours faithfully, 

" Charles Shaw. 

Middle Temple, August 20 (1880). 

A copy of this book was lent to me last autumn. The 
translation of the Anti-Lucretius occupied the greater part 
of it. The poems are as far as I can judge of no great 
merit, and only occupy about ninety (by no means closely 
printed) pages. 



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Mr. A. Lowry Corry's father last sat in the Parliament 
which last sat for the despatch of business on the 27th 
May, 1768. The new Parliament met on the 17th October, 
1769. The following entry appears on the journals under 
the next day's (18th) proceedings : — 

"Armar Lowry Corry, esq., being chosen a Knight of the Shire 
for the county of Tyrone, and also a burgess for the borough of 
Enniskillen in the county of Fermanagh, makes his election to 
serve for the said county Tyrone. 

" Ordered that Mr. Speaker do issue his warrant to the Clerk of 
the Crown to make out a new writ for electing a burgess to serve 
in this present Parliament for said borough of Enniskillen in the 
room of the said Mr. Corry." 

He was returned as the senior Member for both constitu- 
encies. In Tyrone his colleague was James Stewart esq. ; 
in Enniskillen, Richard Gorges the younger esq. He was 
succeeded in Enniskillen by Bernard Smith Ward, esq. 

The only incident in his Parliamentary career in the 
House of Commons that I know of, was that he voted in the 
minority in a division, T believe on the 9th October, 1771. 

A division list (now destroyed) which he sent to his 
uncle Mr. Armar, had in addition to the offices held by 
various members of the majority, such remarks as " a 
placeman," &c, kc, appended to names of other members 
unpopular with the minority, whilst the list of the minority 
was headed " The men who were honest even in Townsend's 
days." Party spirit appears to have run high, and the 
Government evidently carried on business very much by 
the help of their patronage.* 

On this 9th October the entry in the Journals relative to 
pensions was read. Then a motion was made, that it be 
resolved that it appears from the Journals that the civil and 
military pensions for the two years ending Lady Day, 1769, 
amounted to £174,666 lis. 10. 

A motion was made that the consideration of the said 
question be postponed until the Committee of Accounts 
shall sit. 

An amendment was proposed to the last motion by adding 
thereto the following words : — 

" Although the fact contained in the said motion appears on the 
Journals/' 

And the question being put " That the words proposed stand 
part of the question." 

* Viscount Townshend was then Lord Lieutenant. 



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The House divided. 



Tellers for the Ayes ( Mr. Henry Flood, . ) fi7 

who went out, ( Mr. Wood, . . f 

Tellers for the Noes j Mr. Mason, . • i 1 1 q 

who staid within, ( Mr. Solicitor-General, ] 

t It passed in the negative. 

An address to the King was then proposed. This was 
ordered to be taken paragraph by paragraph. Divisions 
were taken on each of the first four (out of five) paragraphs. 
On the second paragraph, which thanked His Majesty for 
continuing Lord Viscount Townshend as Lord Lieutenant, 
the numbers were — Ayes for Government, 116 ; Tellers, Mr. 
Mason and Mr. Hellen ; Noes, 66 ; Tellers, Mr. Henry Flood 
and Mr. Hussey. 

The House had met, or should have met, at 10 A.M. At 
1.30 A.M. next day it was still sitting, and special leave was 
given for a motion to be put. 

Mr. A. L. Corry voted according to the printed list with 
the Opposition. 

The list if I remember rightly was that of the division 
on the pensions. 

On the 8th October 1771, Mr. Lowry Corry married 
Lady Margaret Butler, eldest daughter of Somerset 
Hamilton Earl of Carrick. This appears to have been a 
very happy marriage, and her early death, caused it is said 
by cold after recovering from measles, caught by taking 
off one of her own garments to give to a poor woman, was 
an irreparable loss. Besides her personal qualifications, 
Lady Margaret, although she had only a fortune of £5,000, 
had the advantage of being able to trace a Royal descent, 
both from an English, Irish, and Scotch source. She was, 
through her mother, Lady Juliana Boyle, tenth in descent 
from King Henry the VII., through the Princess Mary 
Plantagenet (widow of Louis XII., King of France), who re- 
married Charles Brandon, k.g., Duke of Suffolk. Her 
grandfather, Henry Boyle, first Earl of Shannon, was lineally 
descended from Robert Bruce, King of Scotland, and her 
great-grandmother, Lady Mary O'Brien, was descended from 
King Bryan Boroihme, who was killed in battle with the 
Danes at Clontarf. Her pedigree is identical with that of 
Lord Farnham, in Sir Bernard Burke's Book of Royal 
Descents. 

There are two portraits of Lady Margaret at Castlecoole. 
One is of a very young and slender girl dressed as a shep- 

t Irish Commons Journals, Vol. VIII., 18th October, 1769. 



46 

herdess ; in the other she is attired as a huntress, with a 
spear and a sort of greyhound. It is a pendant to that of her 
husband in a green riding-coat with a hunting-cap. 

It is presumed that Mr. Lowry Corry made a settlement 
of his estates on his marriage ; but the documents are miss- 
ing. It would no doubt have been made in accordance 
with the terms of his father's will. Lady Margaret's 
own settlement is recited in a deed of assignment dated 
15th March, 1790 (long after her death), between her hus- 
band then become Viscount Belmore, her brother the 
Earl of Carrick, and John La Touche, esq. This deed 
recites a settlement between Somerset Hamilton Lord Vis- 
count Ikerrin of the first part, Henry Boyle one of the 
Lord Justices of the second part, Richard Earl of Cork and 
Burlington, and Charles Earl of Arran, of the third part, 
the Hon. Hayes St Leger of Doneraile and the Hon. M. 
Ward, Justice of the King's Bench, of the fourth part, 
Abraham Creighton (afterwards Earl of Erne) and John 
Bourke of Palmerstown of the fifth part, in consideration 
of a marriage between Lord Ikerrin and Juliana Boyle 
eldest daughter of Henry Boyle, and which made pro- 
vision for younger children. It also recites a settlement 
dated 1st October, 1678, on the marriage of Lady Harriet 
Butler, daughter of the foregoing,- with Edmund Butler 
afterwards Viscount Mountgarret, when Lord Carrick 
(formerly Ikerrin) appointed £5,000 for her fortune. It 
further recites the marriage settlement dated 7th October, 
1771 of Armar Lowry Corry with Lady Margaret Butler, 
when £5,000 was appointed as her fortune, to bear interest 
at the rate of 5 per cent. The fortune was still, in 1790, 
unpaid, and the arrears of interest amounted to £1,124 
13s. 5c?. Mr. La Touche was to advance £3,869 4s. upon 
the credit of the said charge. Lord Belmore assigned the 
said portion and interest, (with Lord Carrick's confirmation,) 
to Alexander Gordon* in trust, with the consent and at the 
desire of John La Touche. Lord Carrick was to pay and 
satisfy Gordon by the sale or mortgage of the lands within 
named, excepting certain lands in Tipperary. 

Lady Margaret had three children, viz. — (1) Galbraith, 
born 1773, who died in infancy, (2) Somerset, second Earl of 
Belmore, born 11th July, 1774, and (3) Juliana, who died an 
infant. Old peerages put Lady Margaret's death in 1777, but 
it would appear from the dates of some of her shop bills, 
settled after her death by (her mother-in-law) Mrs. Lowry 
Corry, that she was dead before the 9th April, 1776. On the 

* Colonel Gordon — his Fermanagh Agent — was a nephew of Mr. Armar. 



47 

other hand she appears to have been alive on the 24th 
February, as that date appears in one of the accounts. 
She may have therefore died in March. A box contain- 
ing (as is supposed) her heart is in the Caledon vault. Pro- 
bably she was buried in Dublin. During her lifetime she 
and her husband seem, from the entries in an old account 
book, to have spent the winter at a place called Newtown, 
in the county Meath. 

Mr. Lowry Corry kept some hounds. I once found a 
memorandum in an old pocket-book, of a match made in 
his younger days, to run a horse of his against one belong- 
ing to another person on the Maze course; but there is 
nothing to show that he was regularly on the turf. 

Mary Lowry Corry, his youngest sister, died in 1774, and 
her fortune, £4,000, appears to have been divided — her 
mother getting one-third. Sarah Lowry Corry succeeded 
her sister Mary Armar at Castlecoole later in the same year, 
and after enjoying it until 1779 died in that year, when 
her son succeeded her. He thus united all the estates of 
his father and of his mother's family in Tyrone, Fermanagh, 
Monaghan, Longford and Armagh, and his mother's Dublin 
house in Sackville-street, and must have been one of the 
largest landed proprietors in Ireland. He appointed two 
agents for his Tyrone estate prior to his mother's death, viz. — 
Messrs. James and Samuel Galbraith. The former managed 
the property which had been his uncle Robert's, and which 
at the date of the oldest rental (1777), which is still in exist- 
ence, was worth about £1,700 a year, (App. Q.) The latter 
managed the remainder of the property, worth about £2,200 
a year. In a few years, however, the value of the latter 
was more than doubled, probably by the dropping of leases. 
The former also rose in value considerably. After some 
years S. Galbraith managed both estates.* 

* The executors were empowered, by the terms of Mr. Galbraith Lowry Corn's 
will; to sell the undivided moiety of the property jointly held by him and Mr. 
Gledstanes. It appears, however, from a bill of "Costs of partition of the 
Monterlony Estate, " commencing prior to Lord Corry's marriage in 1800, and 
ending in 1805, that this was not done. A partition of the property was not 
completed until the latter year. Mr. Gledstanes' moiety was then in the possession 
of Mr. Samuel Jacob. The estate, which had been purchased in 1750, by Mr. G. 
Lowry and Mr. Gledstanes jointly, from a Mr. Hamilton, and which consisted of 
numerous denominations, was the subject of a fine and recovery in 1795. It has 
now been all sold, although not I believe until 1 852, in the Incumbered Estates 
Court. 

It will be seen by reference to the last Appendix, pp. 376-83, that in 1770, 
Mr. A. Lowry Corry had disentailed his Tyrone estates. The statement therefore on 
page 46, lines 4-7, as to the nature of the settlement of the estates, made by him 
in October, 1771, may require some modification. 

* 



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PART II 



CHAPTER VI. 



MANOR COOLE, OTHERWISE MANOR ATKINSON, IN THE COUNTY 
FERMANAGH. 

Introductory, a.d. 1609-13. 

The earliest maps of the escheated counties in Ulster are 
dated 1609. They were therefore published in the fourth 
year of King James I. Copies of these maps have been 
made by Her Majesty's command, by Major-General Sir H. 
James, R.E., F.R.S., Director of the Ordnance Survey, at 
Southampton. The map numbered II., 8, contains the 
present manor of Coole, and is entitled the Map of Magh- 
erastephena (the field of Stephen), and the two half 
baronies of Coole (anglice, a ridge), and Tircanada (now 
called Tirkennedy). Of all the maps, this number is per- 
haps the one in which it is most difficult to identify the 
sites with their modern names. 

The county Fermanagh has still a barony of Coole, but 
this, in the map of 1609, is described as Coolerner — half the 
barony of Knockninny (No. II., 4). The barony of Knock- 
ninny is now confined to the other half barony of the map 
of 1609 (II., 5), which contains the mountain of that name, 
thought by some geologists to have once been an island in a 
deeper and more extended Lough Erne, and it lies on the 
south side of the Lough, whilst Coole is situated on the north 
shore. The old half barony of Coole of the map II., 8, is 
now merged in the barony of Tirkennedy. It extended in a 
north-westerly direction to the present barony of Lurg. 

There was a third Coole in Fermanagh, shown in map IL, 
10, called Coolmackernan, and which now forms part of the 
barony of Lurg, adjoining what was the old half barony of 
Coole. 

The only trace of the ancient Coole to be found at this 
day is in the manor of Coole, or Castlecoole, which is formed 
out of that part of the old half barony which lay along the 
north boundary of the old half barony of Tirkennedy, com- 
mencing with the townland of Ao-harainy, about a mile 
from Lough Erne and Enniskillen on the Tempo road, and 
continuing with one interruption, to the border of the 
county and of Tyrone at Lough Mulshane, which lake is 
partly situate in the townland of Ballyreagh. 



49 

In the year 1610, the Lord Lieutenant (Sir Arthur Chi- 
chester), accompanied by the Lord Chancellor, the Lord 
Chief Justice, and Sir John Davies, the English Attorney- 
General for Ireland, made an expedition to the counties of 
Monaghan, Fermanagh, and Cavan, which had been lately 
escheated to the Crown. An account of this expedition 
is given by Sir John Davies in a letter to Robert, Earl 
of Salisbury then Secretary of State, which forms one of 
"Davies' Tracts." As this work is probably not easily 
accessible, I give a lengthened extract from it, as it contains 
an interesting account of the ancient Irish ecclesiastical 
arrangements of that part of the country, as well as a des- 
cription of the ancient divisions of land, which will make 
what follows more intelligible. 

The following account of the journey commences at pasre 
253 of " Davies' Tracts " :— 

From Monaghan we went the first night to the ruins of the 
Abbey of Clunys, where we camped ; and passing from thence 
through ways almost impassable for our carriages, by reason of the 
woods and bogs, we came the second night after to the south side 
of Lougherne, and pitched our tents over against the island of 
Devonish, a place being prepared for the holding of our sessions 
for Fermanagh in the ruins of an abbey there. There my Lord 
Deputy distinguished the business as he had formerly done in the 
county of Monaghan, reserving unto himself the disposition and 
settling of the lands of inheritance, and leaving unto us the ordi- 
nary matters, both criminal and civil. For the lands of inheri- 
tance in Fermannagh, they stood not in the same terms as the 
lands of Monaghan : for the seignory, or chiefry, and the demesne 
lands that were the inheritance of M'Guyre himself, were reduced, 
and vested in the Crown by two several inquisitions, found after 
the death of Hugh M'Guyre, the arch rebel, of whom I have 
spoken before, the one found in Munster (where shortly after he 
was slam in actual rebellion), by special commission, and the other 
in Fermannagh, by the late Lord Chief Baron, by virtue of his 
office as Chief Baron, two years since, when he was Justice of 
Assize in that county, both which offices are returned and remain 
of record ; the one in the Chancery and the other in the Exchequer^ 
But forasmuch as the greatest part of the inhabitants of that 
country did claim to be freeholders of their several possessions, 
who, surviving the late rebellion, had never been attainted ; but 
having received his Majesty's pardon, stood upright in law, so as 
we could not clearly intitle the Crown to their lands, except it 
were in point of conquest, a title which the State here hath not at 
any time taken hold of for the King against the Irish, which upon 
the conquest were not dispossessed of their lands but were per- 
mitted to die, seized thereof in the King's allegiance, albeit they 
hold the same, not according to the course of the common law, 

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but by the custom of Tannistry, whereby the eldest of every sept 
claimed a chiefry over the rest, and the inferior sort divided their 
possessions after the manner of Gavelkind. Therefore it was 
thought meet to impannel a jury of the most sufficient inhabitants, 
to inquire and present how many freeholds there were, and what 
lands they held in this country, and what certain rents and services 
they yielded to the M'Guyres, or other chieftains and tannists in 
ancient time. Though this was a business of some labour, because 
the custom of Gavilkind had made such petty fractions and divi- 
sions of the possessions of this county, as the number of freeholders 
was exceedingly great, yet within two days they brought in their 
inquisition, in Irish ; which, being translated into English, appeared 
to be confused in general, and without method ; wherewith my 
Lord Deputy not being satisfied, his Lordship having taken a 
resolution to visit the fort and castle of Ballyshannon inTirconnel,* 
being situate on the north-west end of Lough Earne, and not dis- 
tant from our camp above twenty English miles, commanded me, 
in the meantime of his Lordship's absence, to call the grand jury, 
who had made the former presentment, and with them the chief 
inhabitants of every barony, and by conference with them to 
digest the business against his return, which was done in this order. 
First, we thought meet to distinguish the possessions ; next, to 
enquire particular possessors thereof. Touching the possessions ; 
we found Femiannagh to be divided into seven baronies, viz. : 
Magherry Boy, Clanauley, Clankelley, Magherry Stephanagh, 
Tirecannada, Knockninny, and Turath. Every of these baronies 
containeth seven ballibetaghs and a half of land, chargeable with 
M'Guyre's rent, and other contributions of the country ; every 
ballibetagh is divided into four quarters of lands, and every 
quarter into four taths, so as a ballibetagh containeth sixteen taths, 
as it doth in Monaghan ; but the measure of this country is far 
larger, besides the free land, whereof there is good quantity in 
every barony, is no parcel of the seven ballibetaghs and a half 
whereof the barony is said to consist. For these reasons, 
Fermanagh, containing but fifty-one ballibetaghs and a half of 
chargeable lands, is well nigh of as large an extent as Monaghan, 
which hath in it an hundred ballibetaghs. 

Touching the free land, we found it to be of three kinds ; 
Church land, or Termonland, as the Irish call it. Secondly, the 
mensall land of M'Guire. Thirdly, lands given to certain septs, 
privileged among the Irish, viz. : the lands of the Cronicles, 
Rimers, and Galloglasses. 

For the Monastery land, we found no other than that which 
belonged to the Abbey of Lesgole, which doth not exceed the 
quantity of two ballibetaghs, and lieth for the most part in the 
Barony of Clanawley. 

The Church land was either Monastery land, or Herinachs lands : 
for it did not appear unto us, the bishop had any land in demesne, 

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but certain mensall duties of the Oorbes and Herinachs ; neither 
did we find the parsons and vicars had any Glebe lands at all in 
this country. 

But the lands belonging to the Oorbes and Herinachs are of a 
greater quantity, and are found in every barony. I had heard of 
the name of a Corbe and of an Herinach divers times since I came 
into this kingdom, and would gladly have learned of our clergy- 
men in Dublin, what kind of religious persons they were ; but I 
could never be satisfied by any ; and therefore at this time, I was 
the more curious and inquisitive to inform myself of these 
ecclesiastical persons, the like thereof are not to be found in any 
other part of Christendom, nor in Ireland either, but only in the 
countries that are meer Irish ; when therefore we came to enquire 
of the quantity of Termon lands, I called unto me one of the best 
learned Vicars in all the country and one that had been a brehon, 
and had some skill in the civil and common laws, and with much 
ado I got from him thus much light for the understanding of this 
matter. He told me that the word Termon doth signify in the 
Irish tongue, a liberty of freedom, and that all Churchlands what- 
soever are called Termon lands by the Irish, because they were 
ever free from all impositions and cuttings of the temporal lords, 
and had the privilege of sanctuary ; so as no temporal serjeant, 
or officer, might enter to arrest any person upon these lands, but 
the bishop's officers only ; * howbeit, in common understanding 
among us that are English, we call such only Termon lands as 
were in the possession of Corbes, or Herinachs. For the name of 
Corbe, I could not learn that it had any signification in the Irish 
tongue ; some called him in Latin Converbius, but such as are of 
best understandings call him Plebanus, and they yield the reason 
of that name, Quia pleba ecclesiastics priest, f I collect by that 
which they tell me, that he was a prior, or a resident of a Collegiate 
church ; for, he did not only possess a good quantity of glebe 
lands, the tenants and occupiers whereof were called Termon 
men, and had priviledge of clergy, but he had also some rectories 
appropriate, whereof he had that portion of tyths, which belonged 
to the parsons, and had with all the presentation of the Vicarages. 
He had always his place or seat in a mother church, where he had 
a certain number of priests serving with him ; in the cathedral 
church he had a stall in the quire, and a voice in the chapter : 

* The'learned Usher agrees with Sir John in this description of the Termon 
lands. See Leland, 4to edit, vol. ii., p. 510. 

f The profound Usher gives a somewhat different account of the Herenachs and 
Corbes. The Herenachs had two characters ; partly ecclesiastical, and somewhat 
lay. They were admitted into deacons orders; but they never were advanced 
higher : and they resided on the Termon lands, the profits of which they dis- 
tributed to the Bishop and inferior clergy ; to the repair of churches ; and the 
maintenance of hospitality. These services they performed under the direction 
and care of the Corbes, who were ecclesiastics of a much higher order, approaching 
nearly to the character of the Bishop, who presided over the inferior clergy. It 
was also the opinion of the very skilful antiquary before mentioned, that the most 
ancient church polity of Ireland was extremely analogous to that which once 
existed all over Christendom. See Leland, 4to edit., vol. ii., p. 434. 

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and this corbship is named a dignity in the register at Rome ; 
and the Pope at this day doth collate nnto them ; and until this 
day the parsons presented have enjoyed the benefices, in this meer 
Irish country, by colour of the Pope's collation ; lastly, this corb- 
ship was in a manner hereditary ; for though the Corbe were 
ever in orders, yet was he in this Irish country usually married. 

After his death, if any of his sons were qualified with learning, 
he was chosen by the Dean and Chapter to be Corbe ; and if none 
of his sons were capable another of that sept or surname was 
chosen. Without doubt these corbeships, being in the nature of 
collegiate churchs, are vested in the Crown by the statute of dis- 
solution of monasteries ; and accordingly some of them have been 
reduced into charge ; but there are many whereof no inquisition 
hath been found, but concealed as detained by the Irish unto this 
day ; and, that your Lordship may perceive I weave not this web 
out of my own brain, but that I have authority for that which I 
deliver, I will here insert a certificate in Latin, made unto me by 
an Irish scholar, whose opinion I required in this matter, which 
by chance I have now among my papers j for the most part of these 
things I have set down out of my own memory, being now at 
Waterford, and having left the notes of our former journey at 
Dublin. 

The scholar's opinion was this : — 

" Corbanatus, sive plebanatus, dignitas est ; et modo ad regem 
pertinet, sed antea ad papam \ in matrici ecclesia debet necessario 
esse, initiatus sacris ordinibus, omnesque decimas pertinentes ad 
hnnc debet habere et beneficia adjuncta huic ipsius sunt corum que 
conferentiam habet et presentationem. Dictum hoc nomen, quia 
populo et plebi ecclesiastics matricis ecclesia? prsefuit, certuni 
numerum sacerdotum quasi colligiatium debet havere secuin, pri- 
mum stallum in sua ecclesi habet. Habet etiam stallum vacuum 
in ecclesia cathedrali, et vocem in omni capitulo, tarn publico, 
quam privato, inscribitur Romano registro, indeoque dignitas est." 

Of these Corbeships the best in these parts is at Clony's, in the 
county of Monaghan, which M'Mahoune himself procured to be 
conferred upon his eldest son, being but a boy in the time of the 
late rebellion. It was long before granted unto Sir Henry Duke for 
years, and is now in the possession of Sir Francis Rushe, who 
married one of Sir Henry Duke's daughters. There is another at 
De-rough, in Fermanagh, which is likewise brought into charge. 
There are others in O'Rourke's country ; others in L T pper Ossoiy 
and in Ormoimd ; and in many other places, which are not yet dis- 
covered. Thus much touching the name and nature of a Corbe and 
of a Herinach. 

For the Herinach, there are few parishes of any compass in 
extent where there is not an Herinach, which being an officer of 
the church, took begmning in this manner : "When anv lord or 
gentleman had a direction to build a church, he did first dedicate 



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some good portion of land to some saint or other whom he chose 
to be his patron ; then he founded the church, and called it by the 
name of that saint, and then gave the land to some clerk not 
being in orders, and to his heirs for ever, with this intent : that 
he should keep the church clean and well repaired, keep hopitality, 
and give alms to the poor for the soul's health of the founder. 
This man and his heirs had the name of Errenagh. The Errenagh 
was also to make a weekly commemoration of the founder in the 
church. 

He had always Primam Tonsuram, but took no other orders \ 
he had a voice in the Chapter when they consulted about their 
revenues, and paid a certain yearly rent to the bishop, besides a 
fine upon the marriage of every one of his daughters, which they 
call a Soughimpy ; he gave a subsidy to the bishop at his first 
entrance into his bishoprick. 

The certainty of all which duties appear in the bishop's register, 
and these duties grew unto the bishop : first, because the Herinach 
could not be created, nor the church dedicated without the consent 
of the bishop. We are yet doubtful whether these lands possessed 
by the Herinaghs be yet reduced to the Crown, because the statute 
of Chaunteries is not yet enacted in this kingdom ; but certain it 
is that these men possessed all the glebe lands which belongeth 
yearly to such as have care of souls, and therefore when they shall 
be resumed, it were meet they should be added to the parsonages 
and vicarages, whereby they may be found competent livings for 
able ministers which may be placed hereafter in these parts ; for 
now, albeit there be in every parish both a parson and a vicar, yet 
both their livings, being put together, are not sufficient to feed an 
honest man. For the tythes of every parish within the diocese of 
Clogher, which comprehendeth Monaghan, and almost all Fer- 
managh, are divided into four parts, whereof the parson being 
commonly no priest, hath two parts ; the vicar, who is ever a priest 
and serveth the cure, hath one-fourth part ; and the bishop another 
fourth parb, which God knoweth in these poor waste countrys 
doth arise to very small portions ; and thus we found the state of 
the church land in this country. 

Touching M'Guyre's Mensall lands, which were free from all 
common charges and contributions of the country, because they 
yielded a large proportion of butter and meal, and other pro- 
visions for M'Guyre's table. Albeit the jury and other inhabit- 
ants did set forth these Mensall lands in certainty, which, lying 
in several baronies, did not in quantity exceed four Ballibetaghs, 
the greatest thereof being in the possession of one M'Manus and 
his sept ; yet touching the certainty of the duties or provisions 
yielded unto M'Guyre out of these Mensall lands they referred 
themselves unto an old parchment role, which they called an 
indenture, remaining in the hands of one O'Bristan, a chronicler 
and principal brehon of that country, whereupon O'Bristan was 
sent for, who lived not far from the camp, but was so aged and 
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come we demanded of him the sight of that ancient roll, wherein 
as we were informed, not only the certainty of M'Guyre's 
mensall duties did appear, but also the particular rents and other 
services, which were answered to M'Guyre out of every part of 
the country. The old man, seeming to be much troubled with 
this demand, made answer, that he had such a roll in his keeping 
before the war, but that in the late rebellion it was burned, among 
other of his papers and books, by certain English soldiers. We 
were told by some that were present that this was not true, for 
they affirmed that they had seen the roll in his hands since the 
war : thereupon my Lord Chancellor (being then present with us), 
for he did not accompany my Lord Deputy to Ballishannon, but 
staid behind in the camp) did minister an oath unto him, and 
gave him a very serious charge to inform us truly what was be- 
come of the roll. The poor old man, fetching a deep sigh, 
confessed that he knew where the roll was, but that it was dearer 
to him than his life ; and therefore he would never deliver it out 
of his hands, unless my Lord Chancellor would take the like oath, 
that the roll should be restored unto him again : my Lord 
Chancellor, smiling, gave him his word and his hand that he 
should have the roll redelivered unto him, if he would suffer us 
to take a view and a copy thereof : and thereupon the old Brehon 
drew the roll out of his bosom, where he did continually bear it 
about him : it was not very large, but it was wiitten on both 
sides in a fair Irish character ; howbeit, some part of the writing 
was worn and defaced with time and ill keeping : we caused it 
forthwith to be translated into English, and then we perceived 
how many vessels of butter, and how many measures of meal, and 
how many porks, and other such gross duties, did arrive unto 
M'Guyre out of his mensall lands, the particulars whereof I could 
have expressed, if I had not lost the translated copy of the roll at 
Dublin ; but these trifles are not worthy to be presented to your 
Lordship's knowledge. It is sufficient to show of what qualis 
these mensall duties are, and for the quantity thereof, though it 
were great, in respect of the land out of which these provisions 
were taken, which being laid altogether doth not exceed four 
ballibetaghs (as I said before), yet such commodities in those 
parts are of little or no value, and therefore he never made any 
civil use of them, but spent them wastfully in a sordid and 
barbarous manner, among his loose and idle followers : beside 
these mensalls, M'Guyre had 240 beeves, or thereabouts, yearly 
paid unto him out of all the seven baronies, and about his 
castle of Enniskillen he had almost a ballibetagh of land, which 
he manured with his own churles, and this was M'Guyre's whole 
estate in certainty, for in right he had no more, and in time of 
peace he did exact no more, marry in time of war he made 
himself owner of all, cutting what he listed, and imposing as 
many bonaghtes, or hired soldiers, upon them, as he had occasion 
to use : for albeit Hugh M'Guyre that was slain in Munster was 
indeed a valient rebel, and the stoutest that ever was of his name ; 



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notwithstanding generally the natives of this county are reputed 
the worst swordsmen of the North, being rather inclined to be 
scholars, or husbandmen, than to be kerne, or men of action, as 
they term rebels in this kingdom \ and for this cause M'Guyre 
in the late wars did hire and wage the greatest part of his 
soldiers out of Connaught, and out of the Brenie O'Relie, and 
made his own countrymen find them, and pay them ; and there- 
fore the jury enquiring of Escheates, found only two freeholders 
in this country, besides Hugh M'Guyre himself, to have been slain 
in the late rebellion, thereby your Lordship may perceive what 
manner of Lord, M'Guyre should have been, and what means and 
power he should have had to do hurt, if the State here had in 
former times but looked into the state of this country, and had 
established the English laws and justice among them, whereby 
every man might have enjoyed his own : and your lordship may 
likewise conjecture of what greatness the best of this surname 
will be, when the chiefry of this country shall be divided between 
two M'Guyres, and the freeholders shall be established in their 
possessions without any dependancy upon the Lords, paying only 
their certain rents and duties. Assuredly these Irish Lords 
appear to us like glow worms, which afar off seem to be all fire ; 
but, being taken up in a man's hands, are but silly worms : and 
yet this young Coconaught M'Guyre (whose brother Hugh was 
the Alpha, and himself the Omega of the last rebellion ; for Hugh 
was the first that went out, and himself the last that came in), 
will in nowise be satisfied with the greatest part of the chiefry 
of his country ; such is the pride of his own heart, and such is 
the encouragement he receives from some of place and power in 
this kingdom : and to the end he might be thought a person fit to 
be pleased with extraordinary good terms, he gave out a false 
alarm, some days before our coming into Fermanagh, that him- 
self with the Earl of Tirconnell were going into Spain, a common 
and poor Irish policy practised in this realm, ever since the con- 
quest, to amuse the state Avith rumours, that are utterly false^, 
which notwithstanding, in former times, hath prevailed to do 
hurt in this kingdom, according to the observation and saying of 
the old Cardinal of Lorain, that a lie, believed but for an hour, 
doth many times produce effects of seven years continuance. I 
have digressed a little too much in this place, for which I humbly 
crave pardon, if your Lordship shall not think it pertinent to 
this discourse, wherein I meant to set forth the quality and 
quantity of M'Guyer's mensall duties. 

Concerning the free lands of the third kind, viz. — such lands as 
are possessed by the Irish officers of this country, viz. — chroniclers, 
gallowglasses, and rimers, the entire quantity of it, laid together 
as it is scattered in sundry baronies, doth well nigh make two 
ballibetaghs, and no more j which land in respect of the persons 
that merit no respect, but rather discountenance from the State, 
for they are enemies to the English Government, may perhaps be 
thought meet to be added to the demesne lands of the chief lords. 



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In this manner we distinguished the possessions of Fermanagh, 
which being drawn into method, we presented to my Lord Deputy 
upon his return. 

For the several possessions of all these lands, we took this 
course to find them out, and set them down for his Lordship's 
information ; we called unto us the inhabitants of every barony 
severally, beginning with the barony of Magherie Boy, wherein 
we camped, and so calling one barony after another, we had pre- 
sent certain of the clerks or scholars of the country, who know all 
the septs and families, and all their branches, and the dignity of 
one sept above another, and what families or persons were chief of 
every sept, and who were next, and who were of a third rank, and 
so forth, till they descended to the most inferior man in all the 
baronies ; moreover, they took upon them to tell what quantity of 
land every man ought to have by the custom of their country, 
which is of the nature of gavel kind, whereby, as their septs or 
families did multiply, their possessions have been from time to 
time divided and sub-divided, and broken into so many small 
parcels as almost every acre of land hath a several owner, which 
temieth himself a Lord, and his portion of land his country : not- 
withstanding as M'Guyre himself had a chiefry over all the 
country, and some demesnes, that did ever pass to him only who 
carried that title ; so was there a chief of every sept, who had 
certain services, duties, or demesnes, that ever passed to the 
tannist of that sept, and never was subject to division. When 
this was understood, we first inquired whether one or more septs 
did possess that barony, which we had in hand ; that being set 
down, we took the names of the chief parties of the sept or septs 
that did possess the baronies, and also the names of such as were 
second in them, and so of others that were inferior unto them 
again, in rank, and in possessions. Then, whereas every barony 
containeth seven ballibetaghs and a half, we caused the name of 
every ballibetagh to be written down, and thereupon we made 
inquiry what portion of land and services every man held, in every 
ballibetagh ; beginning with such first, as had lands and services ; 
and after naming such as had the greatest quantity of land, and 
so descending unto such as possess only two taths, there we staid, 
for lower we could not go ; because we knew the purpose of the 
State was only to establish such freeholders as were fit to serve on 
juries, at least we had found by experience in the county of 
Monaghan, that such as had less than two taghs allotted unto 
them had not 40s. freehold per arm. ultra reprisatem ; and there- 
fore were not of competent ability for that service : and yet the 
number of freeholders named in this country was above 200. 

And in this order and method we digested the business, 
touching the possessors and possessions of this county of Fer- 
managh, which we presented unto my Lord Deputy upon his 
return from Ballishannon ; his lordship having received it, and 
taken some consideration of it, called the principal inhabitants 
before him in the camp, told them that he came on purpose to 



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understand the state of every particular man in that country, to 
the end he might establish and settle the same, according to his 
Majesty's directions out of England, and that he had received 
some information thereof, which gave him good satisfaction, how- 
beit that he would not suddenly take any final order touching the 
same, but would resolve what was fit to be done, and finish his 
service the next term at Dublin : his lordship's speech and good 
demonstration to the people gave them great contentment. 

It remains I should inform your Lordship, somewhat of the 
service performed by the Justices of Assize in this county : albeit 
they had little to do here, no matter being prepared for them to work 
upon : for the gaol delivery must needs be quickly despatched, where 
there were no justices of the peace, that had either the will or the 
skill to commit malefactors, and where there was no gaol of any 
fastness to keep them, being committed ; howbeit we had a full 
appearance of all the country, and there came in upon recognizances 
taken unskilfully enough by the sheriff and other Irish justices of 
peace, twenty persons in number of thereabouts ; the greatest 
part whereof were loose and idle people bound over to find masters 
or sureties for their behaviour, others were committed for felonies, 
whereof some few were indited, but in the end all were acquitted 
for want of evidence, which happened by the negligence of the 
justices of peace, who had not bound their accusers to prosecute 
against them ; we rebuked the justices of peace for this omission, 
and imposed fines upon them ; and so ended our gaol delivery. 
Then we made the like inquisition here, touching ecclesiastical 
livings, and published the like orders for the civil government of 
their country, as we had done in Monaghan, and so dissolved our 
sessions. The erecting of a free school in this country was de- 
ferred till the coming of the Bishop of Clogher. The building of 
a gaol and sessions house was likewise respited until my Lord 
Deputy had resolved of a fit place for a market and a corporate 
town ; for the habitations of this people are so wild and transitory, 
as there is not one fixt village in all this country. His Lordship 
took a view of two or three places for that purpose, of which he 
conceiveth the Abbey of Lesgole to be the fittest; and I conjecture, 
that the next term, when the principal gentlemen of this country 
shall repair to Dublin to settle their estates, his Lordship will 
make choice of that place for the shire town of this county, and then 
take order for the erecting of a gaol, and house of sessions there. 

Having spent six or seven days in this waste country, we raised 
our camp and returned the same way, which we had passed before, 
into the county of Monaghan. 

Enniskillen (Innis Kethlen, the Island of Kethlen, wife of 
Balor, the Fomorian King of Tory Island),* which was 
eventually selected for the site of the county town, is an 
island in the narrow part of Lough Erne, sometimes called 

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the Erne River, which joins the upper and lower lakes. 
Upon this island at the west side, where the castle barrack 
now stands, was situated the old castle of the Maguires, 
which was beseiged in 1599 by Captain George Bingham, 
assisted by Governor Dowdall. A very curious sketch of 
the seige was made by a soldier called John Thomas, a copy 
of which is appended to the volume of maps of 1609 before 
referred to. Sir John Davies appears to have obtained a 
grant of Lisgoole, which is in the neighbourhood of Ennis- 
killen, for himself. He represented Fermanagh in the Irish 
Parliament of 1613, of which he was Speaker of the House 
of Commons. He eventually returned to England, and 
died in 1626, when on the eve of being made Chief Justice 
of England. 

King James I. granted a charter, of which I possess a 
very ancient copy, marked " copia vera," with a translation, 
dated from Hampton Court, 27th February, 1612, O. S, 
which constituted Enniskillen, therein designated the town 
or village and whole island of " Tniskillin," &c. (except only 
our fort or castle of Eniskillmg), into a parliamentary and 
municipal borough, and appointed as the first Provost and 
fourteen free Burgesses the following persons : — 

* William Cole, esq., Provost. 

* 1. Sir Jolm Wishert, knight. 

* 2. Roger Atkinson, esq. 
3. Robert Cathcart, esq. 

* 4. Henry Hnnings, esq. 

* 5. Thomas Barton. 

* 6. Edward Sibtharp, gentleman. 

7. Thomas Shaw. 

8. William Hall. 

9. Nicholas Ozonbrooke. 

10. Alexander Dunbar. 

1 1 . Edward Moore. 

12. Alex Wigham. 

13. Fferdinand Burfield. 

14. Joseph Walters. 

Of these fifteen persons the only ones whose descendants 
in the male line at least, remain connected with Enniskillen 
are Mr. Cole, the ancestor of the Earl of Enniskillen, and 
perhaps Messrs. Cathcart, Wm. Hall, and Thomas Barton. 
Mr. Cole and Mr. Roger Atkinson were elected in 1613, 
the first members to serve in Parliament for the borough. 

* Patentees. 



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CHAPTER VII. 

CAPTAIN ROGER ATKINSON, 1602-41. 

His history— and patent of CastleCoole — Description of the estate — Fee- 
farm lease of Agharynagh to Zachary Rampayne — New patent on 
defective title — and license to alienate — Sale of Castle Coole and Shan- 
nath to Arthur Champion. 

The Dean of Armagh has very kindly collected and fur- 
nished me with the information which follows ahout Roger 
Atkinson. He has also undertaken the laborious task of de- 
ciphering (not rendered easier by abbreviations), copying, and 
translating the original patent of Castle Coole, dated 1611, 
and making copies or abstracts of a few other ancient docu- 
ments which will be inserted in their proper places. An in- 
teresting table of names, showing the quarter-lands and their 
sub-denominations as they appear in later deeds, with 
observations and modern names, which he has compiled for 
me, will be found in App. R. To this I have ventured to 
append a couple of notes based on my own topographical 
knowledge of the localities. In forwarding the last of 
these papers to me, the Dean says, on the 18th February, 
1881 :— 

" My Dear Lord. — I have at last completed nay task, and if 
my labour be of any service to you, I shall be heartily glad. There 
is a fearful amount of verbiage and repetition in such law docu- 
ments as Roger Atkinson's patent, and a marvellous amount of 
words is tucked into one skin. I like fines better, for though 
their court hand is formidable, yet the language is terse and recital 
clear. 

"I do not find that the name Castle Atkinson, given by 
Atkinson's second patent, was ever formally withdrawn ; it shall 
be called henceforth for ever Castle Atkinson. Strange that 
Atkinson, when in the act of parting with his estate should stamp 
the manor with his name ; ' and yet they think that their houses 
shall continue for ever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure 
from one generation to another ; and call the lands after their own 
names.' 

" In the sheet which I enclose on the names of the components 
of the manor I have ventured on a few etymological speculations. 
Some of them are probable, some are doubtful ; but in process of 
time, after much consideration, we may arrive at an approximation 
to the truth.* 

" I remain, 

" Your Lordship's faithful servant, 

" William Reeves." 

* Vide App. R. 



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Captain Roger Atkinson. 

1602. Jan. 1. — In list of the army at this date Captain Atkin- 
son was returned as in command of 100 foot, stationed on Lough- 
foile. 1 

And again, in 1603, on same station, at the date 27th April. 2 

1603. Oct. 7. — He was granted, by Letters Patent, a pension 
of four shillings a day, during good behaviour. 3 

1604. June 14. — He surrendered that patent and received a 
new one granting him six shillings a day. 4 This had been one 
Foxe's pension.— Cal. S. P., 1603-6, 378. 

Nov. 10. — He received Letters Patent creating him 

Provost Marshall of Lough Foyle, and of the forces and garrison 
of Derry and elsewhere in Ulster, vice Philip Browne, deceased, 
with the standing fee of is. a day, and all perquisites thereto 
belonging. 5 

1605. Dec. 2. — He was succeeded in this office by Richard 
Marsden. 6 

1608. May 24. — In the list of captains in Ireland discharged 
since Michaelmas, 1603, is the name of Captain Roger Atkinson ; 
and he is further spoken of as one of those " born in England." 7 

1610. Among the servitors and pensioners in pay, ready to 
undertake, Captain Atkinson is one. 8 

1611. Jan. 20. — Date of his Plantation Patent of the Manor of 
Coole. 

30 March, same year, he had another patent of lands 

scattered over the counties of Meath, Dublin, Longford, West- 
meath, Louth, and Roscommon. 9 

1612. Oct. 12. — His name occurs second on the list of the bur- 
gesses of the then incorporated borough of Iniskillen. 10 

1613. April 20. — Roger Atkinson, of Coole, esq., was returned 
first Member of Parliament for the borough of Iniskillen. — Lib. 
Mun., Vol. i., pt. 1., p. 166. 

In 1639, Arthur Champion, of Shannock, esq., was returned 
M.P. for same borough, having, I suppose, become proprietor of 
Castlecoole.* — March 10. 

[And here I may observe that in Lascelles' Liber Munerum, on 
six occasions, the Corrys are described as of Castlecoote, by an 
ignorant and careless blunder for Castlecoole.] 

i Cal. Carew Papers, 1601-3, p. 397. 

2 Cal. S. P., 1603-6, p. 397. 

3 Erck, Pat. Jac. I., p. 75; Cal. S. P., 1603-6, p. 130; Cal. Pat. Jac. I., p. 
30&. 

* Erck, p. 127; Cal. Pat. Jac I., p. Bob. 

s Erck, p. 126; Cal. S. P., 1603-6, p. 210. 

6 Ere, p. 240. 

7 Cal. S. P., 1606-1608, p. 538. 

8 Cal. S. P., 1608-10. 

9 Cal. Pat. Jac. I., p. 214a. 

•o Cal. S. P., 1611- 1614, p. 294. 

* Mr. Champion did not become owner of Castlecoole until a little later. 



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1614. He was High Sheriff of the county of Fermanagh. For 
on June 27th, 1615, one Cormack Mac Redmond Moyle Maguire 
swore, on examination, that in harvest last, he, being bailiff re- 
ceiver to Captain Atkinson, the High Sheriff of the county of 
Fermanagh, saw and heard so and so. 1 

1618. April 14. — Sir "William Cole had letters patent granting 
to him a pension of 6s. a day, which had been surrendered by 
Captain Roger Atkinson. 2 

1619. Pynnar, in his survey of the Plantation, reports of this 
undertaker, Captain Roger Atkinson, 1,000 acres called Coole. 
A strong bawne of lime and stone 60 feet square, with 3 flankers ; 
a strong stone house, in which his wife and family dwell ; 2 free- 
holders and 8 leaseholders, all resident ; 2 water mills, a corn and 
tucking mill. 3 

1623. Among the pensioners in Ireland were Sir Win. Cole 
and Sir Roger Atkinson. 4 

1623. Captain Roger Atkinson was one of the Commissioners, 
in Fermanagh, of the six escheated counties. 5 

1639. June 28. — Captain Roger Atkinson obtained new Letters 
Patent of his estate in Fermanagh, in which the manorial name 
was changed to Castle Atkinson, and certain provisions under the 
commission for remedy of defective titles. 

1640. April 22. — Indenture between Roger Atkinson and 
Edith, his wife, of the one part, and Arthur Champion, of Sha- 
nocke, esq., of the other part. — Consideration of sale, £1,650. 
Lands recited. The rental includes, with the generic names as 
they appeared in Roger Atkinson's first patent, the names also of 
the sub-denominations, as they appeared in his second patent of 
the preceding year. 

Same year. 2 May. — Licence of alienation from Charles I. 

to Roger Atkinson. 

Exact Copy and Translation of the Letters Patent of James I. 

to Captain Roger Atkinson, a servitor in the Plantation of 

Ulster, county of Fermanagh ; wherein a small proportion, 

namely, 1,000 acres by estimation, created the manor of Coole, 

in the barony of Coole and Tirkennedy, were granted for ever 

to him, his heirs and assigns, January 20th, 1611. 

Jacobus, Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie et Hibernie Rex, 

Fidei Defensor, &c. Omnibus acl quos presentes litere nostre per- 

venerint, Salutem. Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali et 

ex certa scientia et mero niotu nostris, de assensu predilecti et 

fi delis Consiliarii nostri Arthuri Chichester, militis, Deputati nostri 

i Cal. S. P., 1615-1625, p. 79. 

2 Cal. Pat. Jac. I., p 367a; Lodge's Peerage, iv., p. 206; Archdall's Lodffe, 
vol. vi., p. 109. 

3 Carew S. P., 1603-1624, p. 41 ; Harris's, Hibernica, p. 89; Hill's Plantation 
p. 492. ' 

i Cal. S. P , 1615-1625, p. 465. 
s Ibid, p. 439. 



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G-eneralis dicti regni nostri Hibernie, ac secundum intentionem et 
effectual quarundem literarum patentium commissionariarum sub 
magno sigillo nostro Hibernie confectarum gerentium datum apud 
Dublin vicesimo octavo die Novembris anno regni nostri Anglie 
Francie et Hibernie octavo, et Scotie quadragesimo quarto, prefato 
Deputato nostro Generali, ac aliis Commissionariis nostris in 
dictis Uteris patentibus nominatis directarum, Dedimus et conces- 
simus, ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris 
damus concedimus et confirmamus dilecto nostro Rogero Atkinson 
heredibus et assignatis suis omnes et singulas villas villatas 
hamletas tates sive parcellas terre sequentes, videlicet Ballidrom- 
brochus existentem duo tates terre, Keadagh existentem duo tates 
terre, Tulloharve existentem duo tates terre, Killynan existentem 
duo tates terre, Carrowm c mew existentem unum tate et dimidium 
unius tate terre, Killiwilly existentem unum tate terre, Garwirry 
existentem duo tates terre, Ballyreogh existentem duo tates terre, 
Lassan existentem duo tates terre, cum omnibus et singulis earun- 
dem et earum cujuslibet juribus membris et pertenentiis, que 
omnia continent inter se per estimationem mille acras terre siue 
plus sive minus jacentia in baronia sive precinctu de Coole et 
Tircanada in comitatu Farnianagh, ac etiam omnia et singula castra 
messuagia toftas molendina domus edificationes structuras hon-ea 
stabula columbaria hortos pomaria gardinas terras tenementa prata 
pascua pasturas terras dominicales communias vasta jampna 
bruerias turbarias moras mariscas boscos subboscos aquas aquarum 
cursus piscarias piscationes stagna lacus vivaria mineras quarrias 
redditus reverciones et servicia advantagia commoditates emolu- 
menta et hereditamenta quecunque cum suis pertinentiis uni- 
versis cujuscunque sint generis nature vel speciei seu quibus- 
cunque nominibus sciantur censeantur seu cognoscantur, scituata 
jacentia et existentia provenientia crescentia seu emergentia de in 
vel infra premissa ac quamlibet inde parcellam predictis castris 
villis terris tenementis ceterisque premissis superius per presentes 
preconcessis seu eorum alicui vel aliquibus quoquomodo spectantia 
pertinentia incidentia vel appendentia aut membra partes vel par- 
cellas eorundem castrorum villarum terrarum tenementorum aut 
eorum aliquorum vel alicujus unquam vel ad aliquod tempus ante- 
hac habita cognita acceptata seu reputata existentia. Necnon 
revercionem et reverciones remanerium et remaneria nostra que- 
cunque omnium et singulorum premissorum superius per presentes 
preconcessorum et cujuslibet inde parcelle dependentis seu expec- 
tate de in vel super aliquod doiium vel dona concessum vel con- 
cessa quascunque seu quecunque de premissis seu de aliqua inde 
parcella anteliac facta sive concessa tarn de recordo quam non de 
rec.irdo existentia. Ac omnia et singula redditus et annualia 
proficua quecunque reservata super quibuscunque dimissionibus 
seu concessionibus de premissis per presentes preconcessis seu de 
aliqua inde parcella antehac factis siue concessis. Ac redditus et 
proficua tarn casualia quam annualia omnium et singulorum pre- 
missorum superius per presentes concessorum et cujuslibet inde 



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parcellse. Habendum tenendum et gaudendum predicta castra 
messuagia villas terras hereclitamenta ac cetera omnia et singula 
premissa superius per presenfces preconcessa et quamlibet inde 
parcellam cum pertinentiis suis universis prefato Rogero Atkinson 
heredibus et assignatis ad solum et proprium opus et usum prefati 
Rogeri Atkinson heredum et assignatorum suorum imperpetuum. 
Tenendum de nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris ut de castro 
nostro Dublin in libero et communi soccagio per fidelitatem tantum 
et non in capite neque in soccagio in capite nee per servitium 
militis. Reddendo inde annuatim et festo Pasche quod erit in 
anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo decimo quarto nobis here- 
dibus et successoribus nostris ad receptionem scaccarii nostri here- 
dum et successorum nostrorum dicti regni nostri Hibernie vel ad 
manus Yicethesaurarii sive Generalis Receptoris nostri heredum 
et successorum nostrorum dicti regni nostri Hibernie pro tempore 
existenti um octo libras currentis monete Anglie ad festa Pasche 
et Sancti Michaelis Archangeli per equales porciones annuatim 
solvendas. Ac ulterius de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac ex 
certa scientia et mero motu nostris concessimus et licentiam dedi- 
mus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris 
concedimus et licentiam damus prefato Rogero Atkinson heredibus 
et assignatis suis quod ipsi et ipsorum quilibet de tempore in tem- 
pus ad ejus et eorum libet durante spatio septem annorum proxime 
sequentium post datum presentium valeant et possint valeat et 
possit eskippare carriare exportare et transportare extra dictum 
regnum nostrum Hibernie vel aliquam inde partem sive parcel- 
lam tarn in regnum nostrum Anglie et cetera omnia dominia 
nostra quecunque quam in aliquod aliud regnum patriam terri- 
torium sive dominium in partibus transmarinis existens in 
amicitia nostra heredum et successorum nostrorum et non alibi 
omnia et omnimoda grana coria seva lanas lina lintea Anglice 
lynnen yarne pannos omnis generis ac omnimoda alia commodi- 
tates et mercandisas quascunque de tempore in tempus in vel 
infra separales comitatus de Armagh, Tyrone, Oolrane, Donagall, 
comitatum Civitatis Derry, Farmanagh, et Cavan, aut eorum ali- 
quam in provincia nostra Ultonie crescentia contingentia reno- 
vantia seu emergentia vel imposterum crescenda contingenda reno- 
vanda seu emergenda, et easdem commoditates et mercandisas 
sic exportatas sive transportatas ibidem vendere et vendicioni 
exponere sive permutare pro ejus et eorum majori commodo et 
utilitate absque compoto vel solutione alicujus custume magne vel 
parve aut alicujus subsidii impositionis vel denarie sumine aut 
alicujus alius oneris seu aliquo alio proinde nobis heredibus vel 
successoribus nostris infra regna nostra vel eorum aliquod reddendo 
soluendo seu faccendo volentes enim et per presentes firmiter 
injungendo mandantes et precipientes tarn omnibus et singulis 
Thesaurariis Subthesaurariis custumarum Collectoribus custu- 
marum et subsidiorum Scrutatoribus quam omnibus aliis 
officiariis ministris nostris heredum et successorum nostrorum 
quibuscunque dictorum regnorum nostrorum Anglie et Hibernie et 



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eorum cujuslibet, quod ipsi et ipsorum quilibet de tempore in 
tenipus permittant seu permittat prefatum Rogerum Atkinson 
heredes et assignatos suos et eorum quemlibet quiete et pacifice 
in forma predicta escippare carriare exportare vendere et 
venditioni exponere omnes et singulas cujusmodi commoditates 
et mercandisas absque sokicione alicujus custume subsidii 
impositionis vel denarie summe aut aliquo alio proinde nobis 
heredibus vel successoribus nostris in parte reddendo seu 
solvendo. Et he litere nostre patentes vel iiTotulamentum 
earundem erunt dictis Thesaurariis Subthesaurariis Custumariis 
Collectoribus custumaram Scrutatoribus et aliis officiariis et 
ministris nostris quibusounque sufficientes warranta et exoneratio 
in hac parte : aliquo statuto acto ordinatione provisione proclama- 
tione aut restrictione aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia 
quacunque in contrarium premissorum non obstante. Ac ulterius 
de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et mero motu 
nostris concessimus et licentiam dedimus ac per presentes pro 
nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris concedimus et licentiam 
clamus prefato Rogero Atkinson heredibus et assignatis suis quod 
ipsi et ipsorum quilibet infra spatium qainque annorum proxime 
sequentium post datum presentium ad ejus et eorum libet 
voluntatem valeant et possint valeat et possit eskippare carriare 
exportare et conveiare de et ex regnis et dominiis nostris 
aut eorum aliquo in dictum regnum nostrum Hibernie ac 
ibidem discargare et exonerare omnia et omnimodi victualia 
et utensilia in domibus suis vel tenentium suorum habendum et 
utendum omnia et omnimodi materialia et instrumenta pro 
edificatione et structura in et super aliquas terras infra predictos 
comitatus Armagh, Tyrone, Colrane, Donagall, comitatum 
civitatis Deny, Cavan, et Farmanagh vel eorum aliquem facien 
dis et pro institutione et manutenencia agriculture necessaria ac 
pecora sive animalia omnis generis prostauro (anglice stockinge 
and stoaringe) ac pro cultura et manuratione aliquarum terrarum 
infra separales comitatus predictos aut eorum aliquem absque 
compoto vel solucione alicujus custume subsidii impositionis vel 
denairie summe proinde nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris 
in regnis nostris vel eorum aliquo solvendi vel faciendi. Et 
ulterius volumus precipimus et mandamus omnibus et singulis 
Thesaurariis Subthesaurariis Customariis Collectoribus custumarum 
et subsidiorum Scrutatoribus et omnibus aliis officiariis et ministris 
nostris quibuscunque dictorum regnorum nostrorum Anglie et 
Hibernie et eorum cujuslibet quod ipsi et ipsorum quilibet de 
tempore in tenipus permittant sive permittat prefatum Rogerum 
Atkinson heredes et assignatos suos et eorum quemlibet quiete 
et pacifice eskippare carriare transportare exportare discargare 
et exonerare omnia et singula hujusmodi victualia utensilia 
materialia et instrumenta pro edificiis et structuris predict is 
faciendis et pro causis et usibus predictis applicanda et utenda 
absque solucione alicujus custume subsidii impositionis vel denarie 
summe cujuscunque proinde nobis heredibus vel successoribus 



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nostris in ea parte reddenda seu solvenda. Et lie litere patentea 
vel irrotulamentum earum erunt dictis Thesaurariis Subthesau- 
rariis Custumariis Collectoribus custumarum et aliis officiariis et 
niinistris nostris quibuscunqne sufficiens warranta et exoneratio 
in hac parte, aliquo statuto acto ordinatione provisione pro- 
clamacione sive restrictione aut aliqua alia re causa vel materia 
in contrarium inde non obstante. Ita tamen quod hec nostra 
concessio sive licentia se aliqualiter non extendat ad aliquas 
commoditates transportandas sive importandas in dictum regnum 
Hibernie ea intencione ut tanquam mercandise sive mercimonia 
vendantur seu pernmtentur. Yolumus etiam ac per presentes 
firmiter injungendo precipimus et mandamus quod prefatus 
Rogerus Atkinson heredes et assignati sui et eorum quilibet de 
tempore in temp us infra spacium duorum annorum proximo 
sequentium post datum presentium licite et impune ingredi et 
intrare possint ac possit in omnes et singulos boscos subboscos 
et terras boscales in separalibus comitatibus de Armagh, Donegall, 
Fermanagh, Cavan, et Tyrone ac ibidem per assignationem Com- 
missionariorum nostrorum in ea parte authorizandorum scindere 
et asportare tot tales et tantas arbores sive meremium quot 
quales et quantas erunt sufficientes pro edificiis in et super 
premissa seu aliquam inde partem erigendis absque aliquo 
compoto vel denaria summa aut aliquo alio pro hujusmodi 
arboribus sive meremio nobis heredibus vel successoribus nostris 
vel alicui alii persone sive personis solvendo vel faciendo. 
Yolumus ulterius ac per presentes injungendo precipimus et 
mandamus ac prefatus Rogerus Atkinson pro se heredibus 
executoribus et administratoribus et assignatis suis convenit et 
concedit ad et cum nobis heredibus et successoribus nostris per 
presentes quod si Commissionarii predicti in hac parte auctorizati 
infra spatium duorum annorum proxime sequentium post datum 
presentium assignabant alicui alii persone vel personis pro 
structuris seu edificiis erigendis in aliqua parte separalium 
comitatuum predictorum aliquas arbores sive meremium in et 
super premissis superius per presentes preconcessis aut aliqua 
inde parcella crescentes vel existences quod tunc bene liceat 
et licebit hujusmodi persone vel personis in premissa preconcessa 
aut in aliquam sive quamlibet inde parcellam licite quiete et 
impune ingredi et intrare et infra spacium duorum annorum 
ut predictum est tot tales et tantas arbores sive meremium sic 
ut prefertur assignanda ibidem scindere et asportare ac ad usus 
predict os convertere absque aliquo compoto vel denaria summa 
aut aliquo alio pro inde prefato Rogero Atkinson heredibus vel 
assignatis suis solvendo seu faciendo et absque aliqua inter- 
ruptione impedimento vel impeticione ejusdem Rogeri Atkinson 
heredum vel assignatorum suorum ; aliquo in hiis presentibus in 
contrarium inde non obstante. Yolumus etiam ac per presentes fir- 
miter injungendo precipimus et mandamus et prefatus Rogerus 
Atkinson pro se heredibus executoribus administratoribus et assig- 
natis suis convenit et concedit ad et cum nobis heredibus et 



successoribus nostris per presentes quod prefatus Rogerus Atkinson 
heredes et assignati sui causabunt seu causabit separales tenentes 
suos in feodo firmo ac separales tenentes suos pro termino vite 
vitarum vel annorum et ipsorum quemlibet edificare et erigere 
domns suas mansionales vicinatim ac prope principalem domiim 
sive mansionem dicti Rogeri Atkinson heredum et assignatorum 
suorum in et super premissis edificandas sive erigendas et non 
sparsim seu solitario tara pro mutuali defensione ac presidio dicti 
Rogeri Atkinson heredum et assignatorum suorum predictorum 
quam pro erectione separalium villatarum in et super premissis 
ad servicium et bonum publicum dicti regni nostri Hibernie. 
Volumus ulterius ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et suc- 
cessoribus nostris firmiter injungendo precipimus et mandamus ac 
prefatus Rogerus Atkinson pro se heredibus executoribus adminis- 
tratoribus et assignatis suis convenit et concedit ad et cum nobis 
heredibus et successoribus nostris per presentes quod prefatus 
Rogerus Atkinson heredes et assignati sui de tempore in tempus 
preparabunt ac in promptu habebunt in domibus suis mansionali- 
bus in et infra premissis erigendis seu edificandis sex bombardas 
Anglice musketts et calivers ac sextela manualia Anglice hand 
weapons ad armandum seu instmendum duodecim viros pro 
defensione seu presidio dicti Rogeri Atkinson heredum et assigna- 
torum suorum versus rebelles sive alios inimicos nostros heredum 
vel successorum nostrorum in dicto regno nostro Hibernie. Ac 
ulterius volumus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et suc- 
cessoribus nostris concedimus et firmiter injungendo precipimus 
et mandamus quod predicta castra ville terre tenementa ac cetera 
premissa superius per presentes preconcessa de cetero sint ac habe- 
antur unum integrum manerium in re et nomine ac imperpetuum 
nuncupetur Manerium de Coole. Ac quod predictus Rogerus 
Atkinson heredes et assignati sui habeant et teneant ac habere et 
tenere valeant et possint infra dictum manerium tres centum acras 
terre distinctas et separales pro terris dominicalibus ejusdem 
manerii. Ac ulterius concedimus et licentiam damus prefato 
Rogero Atkinson heredibus et assignatis suis quod ipse heredes et 
assignati sui predicti et eorum quilibet possint ac valeant vel 
possit ac valeat libere et sine impetitione nostra heredum et suc- 
cessorum nostrorum dare concedere ac quovismodo alienare cetera 
omnia et singula premissa preconcessa ac quamlibet iude parcellam 
alicui persone vel aliquibus personis heredibus et assignatis suis 
tenendum de dicto Rogero Atkinson heredibus et assignatis suis 
ut de predicto manerio suo de Coole predicto in libero et communi 
soccagio ac per sectum curie bis per annum tenende reddendo tales 
redditus et alias legittimas reservaciones quas prefato Rogero 
Atkinson heredibus vel assignatis suis melius videbitur expedire. 
Non obstante statuto vulgariter nuncupate Quia emptor terre. aut 
aliquo alio statuto ordmatione vel provisione aliqua alia re causa 
vel materia quacunque in contrarium non obstante. Ac ulterius 
volumus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et successoribus 
nostris concedimus et licentiam damus prefato Rogero Atkinson 




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heredibus et assignatis snis quod ipsi et ipsorum quilibet habeant 
et teneant habeat et teneat ac habere et ten ere valeant et possint 
valeat et possit in et infra precincta et limites manerii predicti 
imam curiam in natura curie baronis ad inquirendum audiendum 
terminandum et agendum omnes et singulas tales res et materias 
ac eisdem modo et forma que et prout in aliqua curia baronis 
infra dictum regnum nostrum Anglie vel infra dictum regnum 
nostrum Hibernie inquiri audiri terminari et agi debeant seu 
solent. Tenendum coram seneschallo seu seneschallis per dictum 
Rogerum Atkinson heredes et assignatos suos de tempore in 
tempus nominandis et constituendis ac coram liberis sectalibus 
dicti manerii de Coole respective ac in eadem curia tenere placita 
de omnibus et singulis actionibus transgressionibus conventionum 
computorum contractorum detentione debitorum et demandis 
quibuscunque que in debito aut damno non excedant summam 
quadraginta solidorum sterlingorum in vel infra premissis superius 
perpresentes preconcessis ac limitibus et bundis eorundem contin- 
gentibus seu emergentibus. Quodque ipsi et ipsorum quilibet 
habeat et percipiat habeant et percipiant ac de tempore in 
tempus habere et percipere valeant et possint valeat et possit 
omnia et singula proficua amerciamenta fines comoditates advan- 
tagia et emolumenta quecunque ad hujusmodi curiam spectantia 
seu pertinentia aut aliquo modo inde provenientia seu 
emergentia absque compoto seu aliquo alio proinde nobis 
heredibus vel successoribus nostris faciendis seu solvendis. 
Volumus etiam ac de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac 
ex certa scientia et mero motu nostris concedimus prefato 
Rogero Atkinson heredibus et assignatis suis quod nos heredes et 
successores nostri de cetero imperpetuum annuatim et de tempore 
in tempus exonerabimus acquietabimus et indempnum conserva- 
bimus tarn prefatum Kogerum Atkinson heredes et assignatos suos 
et eoruui quemlibet quam predicta castra messuagia villas terras 
tenementa hereditates ac cetera omnia et singula premissa superius 
per presentes preconcessa et eorum quamlibet parcel] am cum suis 
pertinentiis universis versus nos heredes et successores nostros 
de et ab omnibus et omnimodis corrodiis redditibus feodis annui- 
tatibus pencionibus porcionibus denariis summis ac oneribus 
quibuscunque de premissis preconcessis aut de aliqua inde par- 
cella nobis heredibus vel successoribus nostris exeuntibus seu 
solvendis vel superincle versus nos heredes vel successores nostros 
oneratis seu onerandis preterquam de redditione servicii tenure 
ac aliis oneribus superius pro premissis in hiis presentibus reser- 
vatis. Yolentes enim et per presentes firmiter injungendo preci- 
pientes tarn Thesaurariis Cancellarie et Baronibus Scaccarii nostris 
heredum et successorum nostrorum quam omnibus et singulis 
Receptoribus Auditoribus ac aliis officiariis et ministris nostris 
heredum et successorum nostrorum dicti regni nostri Hibernie pro 
tempore existentibus, quod ipsi et ipsorum quilibet super solarn 
demonstrationem harum literarum nostrarum patentium vel irrotu- 
lamenti earundem absque aliquo b revi seu warranta de nobis here- 

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dibus vel successoribus nostris quoque modo irnpetrato prosequendo 
plenam integraru debitamque allocationem et exonerationem mani- 
festam de et ab omnibus et omnimodis hujusmodi corrodiis redi- 
tibus feodis annuitatibus pencionibus porcionibus denariis sunimis 
ac omnibus quibuscunque preterquam de predicto redditu servicii 
tenure ac ceteris oneribus superius pro premissis in hiis presentibus 
ut prefertur reservatis de premissis preconcessis, aut corum aliquo 
nobis heredibus vel successoribus nostris exeuntibus seu solvendis 
vel superinde versus nos heredes vel successores nostros oneratis 
seu onerandis, ac per prefatum Rogerum Atkinson heredes vel 
assignatos suos solubilibus fiendis seu performandis prefato Rogero 
Atkinson heredibus et assignatis suis facient et de tempore in 
tempus fiere causabunt. Et he litere nostre patentes vel irrotu- 
lamentum earundem erunt tarn dictis Thesaurariis Cancellarie t-t 
Baronibus Scaccarii predictis quam predictis Receptoribus Auditori- 
bus et aliis ofhciariis et ministris nostris heredum et successoi*um 
nostrorum quibuscunque dicti regni nostri Hibemie pro tempore 
existentibus sufficiens warranta et exoneracio in hac parte. Ac 
ulterius de ampliori gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia et 
mere- motu nostris volumus ac per presentes pro nobis heredibus et 
successoribus nostris concedimus prefato Rogero Atkinson heredi- 
bus et assignatis suis quod he littere nostre patentes vel irrotula- 
meiitum earum erunt in omnibus et per omnia firme valide bone 
sufneientes et effectuales in lege erga et contra aoe lieredes et 
successores nostros tarn in omnibus curiis nostris heredum et 
successorum nostrorum quam alibi intra dictum regnum nostrum 
Hibernie vel alibi ubicunque absque aliquibus contirmatione 
licentia vel tolleratione de nobis heredibus vel successoribus nostris 
imposterum per prefatum Rogerum Atkinson heredes vel assigna- 
tos suos procurandis sive obtiuendis. Non obstante male nomin- 
audo seu male recitando non nominando vel non recitando aliquam 
villain villatam parochiam hamletam locum vel comitatum in quo 
vel in quibus premissa superius per presentes precuneessa aut 
aliqua inde parcella existunt vel existit. Et not obstante non 
nominando male nominando aut non recitando predicta castra 
messuagia villas terras tenements hereditates ac cetera premissa 
superius per presentes preconcessa aut aliquam inde parcellam. Et 
non obstante non inveniendo olhciuni aut inquisicionem premisso- 
rum aut alicujus inde parcelle per que titulus noster aut alicujus vel 
aliquorum progenitoruin sive antecessorum nostrorum de in vel ad 
premissa aut aliquam inde parcellam inveniri debuit ante eomfeeti- 
oaem harum literarum nostrarum patentium. Et non obstante non 
recitando vel male recitando aliquam dimissionem seu concessionem 
pro termino vite vitarum vel annorum vel in feodo talliato aut 
alitor de premissis seu de aliqua inde parcella antehae factas 
ten tern de recordo vel non de recordo. Et non obstantibus aliqui- 
bus defectibus de certitudine vel computatione aut declaratioue 
veri annui valoris premissorum aut alicujus parcelle aut annualis 
redditus reservati super quibuscunque dimissis seu concessit de 
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expressis vel contentis aut non expressis. Et non obstante quod 
de nominibus tenentium firmariorum sive occupatorum premiss- 
orum aut alicujus inde parcelle plena vera et certa non fit mentio. 
Et non obstante statuto in parliament o domini Henrici nuper regis 
Anglie sexti predecessoris nostri anno regni sui decimo octavo 
apud Westmonasterium facto et edito et postea inter alia auctori- 
tate parliamenti in dicto regno nostro Hibernie stabilito et con- 
firmato. Et non obstantibus aliquibus aliis defectibus in non 
recte nominando naturam genera species quantitatem aut quali- 
tatem premissorum aut alicujus inde parcelle. Yel eo quod expressa 
mencio de vero valore annuo aut de certitudine premissorum seu 
eorum alicujus aut de aliis donis siue concessionibus per nos vel 
per aliquem progenitorum nostorum eidem Rogero Atkinson ante 
hec tempora factis in presentibus minime facta existit. Aliquo 
statuto aut ordinatione sive provisione aut aliqua alia re causa vel 
materia quacunque in contrarium premissorum facto in aliquo 
non obstante. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri 
fecimus patentes. Teste prefato Deputato nostro Generali regni 
nostri Hibernie apud Dublin vicesimo die Januarii anno regni 
nostri Anglie Francie et Hibernie octavo et Scotie quadragesimo 
quarto. 

Edgeworthe. 

Exemplif. per. Fra : Edgeworthe. 
(Endorsed) 

In Rotulat. Paten tibus Cancellarie Hibernie de anno regni Jacobi 
Anglie Francie et Hibernie octavo et Scotie quadragesimo quarto 
per me Jacobum . . . clericum in officio Magistri Rotulorum. 

James, by the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and 
Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. To all to whom our 
present letters may come greeting. Know that we, of our special 
grace, and of our certain knowledge and mere motion, by the 
assent of our well-beloved and faithful Councillor Arthur 
Chichester, Knight, and Deputy-General of our said Kingdom of 
Ireland, and agreeably to the intent and effect of certain Letters 
Patent commissarial under our Great Seal of Ireland drawn up, 
bearing date at Dublin the 28th day of November, in the 8th 
year of our reign of England, France, and Ireland, and the 44th 
of Scotland, directed to our aforesaid Deputy-General and other 
our Commissioners named in the said Letters Patent, have given 
and granted, and by these presents for us, our heirs and successors, 
do give grant and confirm to our beloved Roger Atkinson, his 
heirs and assigns, all and singular, the towns, villages, hamlets, 
tates or parcels of land following, to wit Ballidrombrochus, being 
two tates of land ; Keadagh, being two tates of land ; Tulloharve 
being two tates of land ; Kill y nan, being two tates of land ; 
Carrowm c mew, being one tate and half a tate of land ; Killiwilly, 
being one tate of land ; Garwirry, being two tates of land ; 
Ballyreogh, being two tates of land ; Lassan, being two tates of 
land ; with all and singular the rights, members, and appurtenances 



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of the same and of each ol thein ; all of which together contain by 
estimation a thousand acres, be they less or more, lying in the barony 
or precinct of Coole and Tircanada in the county of Farmanagh ; 
and also all and singular the castles, messuages, tofts, mills, 
houses, buildings, structures, barns, stables, pigeon houses, gardens, 
orchards, gardens, lands, tenements, meadows, grazings, pastures, 
demesne lands, commonages, wastes, gorselands, heaths, turbarys, 
moors, morasses, woods, underwoods, waters, watercourses, 
fisheries, fishings, pools, lakes, ponds, minerals, quarries, rents, 
reversions, and services, advantages, commodities, emoluments, 
and hereditaments, whatsoever, with all their appurtenances of 
whatsoever kind, nature, or sort, or by whatsoever names they 
are known, regarded, or understood ; situate, lying, and being, 
accruing, growing, or arising of, in, or within the premises, and 
every portion thereof, to the aforesaid castles, towns, lands, tene- 
ments, and other the premises by these presents above afore- 
granted, or to any one or more of them in any way whatsoever 
belonging, pertaining, incident, or appendent, or members, parts, or 
parcels of the same castles, towns, lands, tenements, or any, or any 
one of them, ever or for any previous time whatsoever held, known, 
understood, or reported to be. Also our reversion and reversions, 
remainder and remainders whatsoever, of all and singular the 
premises by these presents above foregranted, and of each portion 
thereof depending or expected, from in or upon any gift or gifts what- 
soever of the premises, or of any portion thereof previously made or 
granted, which are of record as also not of record. And all and singu- 
lar the rents and yearly profits whatsoever reserved on any lettingsor 
grants, of the premises already granted by these presents, or of any 
portion thereof heretofore made or granted. And rents and profits 
as well occasional as yearly of all and singular the premises by 
these presents above granted, and of any portion thereof. To have, 
hold, and enjoy, the aforesaid castles, messuages, towns, lands, 
hereditaments, and all and singular the other premises above by 
these presents granted, and every parcel thereof, with all their ap- 
purtenances to the aforementioned Roger Atkinson, his heirs and 
assigns, for the sole and proper service and use of the aforesaid 
Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, for ever. To hold of us, 
our heirs, and successors, as of our Castle at Dublin, in free and 
common soccage by fealty only, and not in capite, nor in soccage 
in capite, nor knight's service. Yielding thereout year by year, 
and at the feast of Easter that will be in the year of our Lord one 
thousand six hundred and fourteen, to us, our heirs and suc- 
cessors, at the receipt of our Exchequer, and that of our heirs and 
successors of our said realm of Ireland, or at the hands of our 
Vice-Treasurer or Receiver-General of our heirs and successors of 
the Kingdom of Ireland for the time being, Eight Pounds of the 
current money of England, at the feasts of Easter and St. Michael 
the Archangel, to be paid by equal portions yearly. Futhermore 
of our largei- special grace, and of our certain knowledge and 
mere motion we have granted and given licence, and by these 



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presents, for us, our heirs and successors, do grant and 
give licence to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs and 
assigns, that they and every of them, from time to time, 
during the space of seven years next ensuing after the 
date of the presents, may and can, he may and can, ship, carry, 
export, and transport outside our kingdom of Ireland, or any 
part or parcel thereof, as well to our kingdom of England, and all 
other our dominions whatsoever, as unto any other kingdom, 
country, territory, or dominion, in the parts beyond the seas, that 
is in amity with us, our heirs and successors, and not elsewhere, 
all and every kind of grain, hides, tallow, wools, linen, lintea, 
Anglice linen yarn, cloths of every sort, and all kinds of matters, 
commodities, and merchandises whatsoever, from time to time, in 
or within the several counties of Armagh, Tyrone, Colrane, 
Donagall, the county of the city of Deny, Fermanagh, and Cavan, 
or any of them in our province of Ulster, growing, accruing, 
renewing, or arising, or hereafter to grow, accrue, renew, or arise ; 
and the same commodities and merchandize, thus exported or 
transported, in the same place to sell and expose to sale or 
barter, for his, and their, greater benefit and advantage without 
account, or the payment of any custom great or small, or of any 
subsidy, imposition, or denaria summa, or of any other burden ; 
or any other thing to be returned paid or done on that behalf to 
us, our heirs or successors, within our realms, or any one of them ; 
for that, we will, and by these presents, with strict injunction, we 
command and instruct, as well all and singular treasurers, sub- 
treasurers, collectors of customs, searchers of customs and 
subsidies, as all other the officers and servants of us, our heirs and suc- 
cessors, whatsoever, of our kingdoms of England and Ireland, and of 
each of them, who themselves, and every of them, from time to time, 
are to permit, or is to permit, the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his 
heirs and assigns, and every of them, quietly and peaceably, in the 
manner aforesaid, to ship, carry, export, sell, and expose for sale, 
all and singular the said commodities and merchandizes, without 
the payments of any custom, subsidy, imposition, or denaria 
summa, or anything else, on that behalf to be returned or paid to 
us, our heirs or successors. And these our letters patent, or the 
enrolment of the same, shall be to the said treasurers, sub-treasurers, 
officers of customs, collectors of customs, and searchers, and all 
other our officers and servants whatsoever, sufficient warrants and 
relief in this behalf, any statute or ordinance provision, proclama- 
tion, or restriction, or any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever, 
to the contrary of the premises not withstanding. And moreover, 
of our further special favour, and from our sure knowledge and 
mere motion, we have granted and given licence, and by these pre- 
sents, for us, our heirs and successors, do grant and give licence, to 
the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, that they and 
every of them, within the space of five years next following after the 
date of these presents, at the will of him, and each of them, may 
and can ship, carry, import, and convey, from and out of our realms 



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and dominions, or any of them, into our aforesaid kingdom of Ireland, 
and there to discharge and unload, all and all kinds of victuals, 
and utensils, to be had and employed in the houses of them, and of 
their tenants, and all sorts of materials and tools for building and 
construction, to be carried on in and on any lands within the 
aforesaid counties of Armagh, Tyrone, Colraine, Donegall, county 
of the city of Deny, Cavan, and Farmanagh, or any of them, and 
such as are necessary for the introduction and maintenance of 
agriculture, and cattle or animals of every kind pro-stauro (for 
store), Anglice stockinge and stoaringe, and for the tillage and 
manuring of any lands within the several counties aforesaid, or any 
one of them, without reckoning, account, or payment, of any custom, 
subsidy, imposition, or denaria sumna, thereout to be paid or 
performed to us, our heirs, and successors, in our kingdoms or any 
of them. And moreover we will, enjoin, and command all and 
singular treasurers, under-treasurers, commissioners of customs, 
collectors of customs and subsidies, searchers, and all other our 
officers and servants soever of our said kingdoms of England and 
Ireland, and each of them, that they and every of them do permit 
from time to time the aforesaid "Roger Atkinson, his heirs and 
assigns, and each of them, quietly and peaceably to ship, carry, 
transport, export, discharge, and unload, all and singular such 
victuals, utensils, materials, and tools for the building of houses 
and construction of works aforesaid, and to be applied and used 
for the purposes and uses aforesaid without payment of any cus- 
tom, subsidy, imposition, or denaria gamma whatsoever thereout, to 
us, our heirs or successors, to be returned or paid on their behalf. 
And these letters patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be to the 
said treasurers, sub -treasurers, commissioners of customs, collectors 
of customs, and also others our officers and servants, sufficient 
warrant of relief in their behalf, any statute, act, ordinance, pro- 
vision, proclamation, or restriction, or any other thing, cause, 
or matter, to the contrary thereof not withstanding. In such 
sense, however, that this our grant or licence may not in any way 
extend itself to the transporting or importing any commodities 
into the said kingdom of Ireland, with the intent that they should 
be sold or bartered as merchandise or wares. Moreover, we will, 
and by strictly enjoining it in these presents, we direct, and com- 
mand, that the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, and 
each of them, may, from time to time, within the space of two years 
next following from the date of these presents, lawfully and v ith 
impunity, have access to, and enter into, all and singular the woods, 
underwoods, and woodlands, in the several counties of Armagh. 
Donegall, Fermanagh, Cavan, and Tyrone, and there by assign- 
ment of our commissioners, to be empowered in that behalf, to cut 
down and carry away so many, such, and such sized trees or 
timber as in number, nature, and dimensions shall be sufficient for 
the building of houses in and upon the premises, or any part 
thereof, without any reckoning, or denaria summa, or any other 
thing, to be paid or performed, for the said trees or timber, to us 



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our heirs or successors, or any other person or persons. Moreover 
we will, and in the presents by strict injunction give orders, and 
command, and the aforesaid Roger Atkinson for himself, his heirs, 
executors, administrators and assigns, covenants, and allows, and 
agrees, to and with us, our heirs and successors, by the presents, that 
if the commissioners aforesaid, in this behalf empowered, within the 
space of two years next following after the date of the presents, 
shall assign to any other person or persons, for buildings or the 
erection of houses, in any part of the several counties aforemen- 
tioned, any trees or timber growing or being in and upon the 
premises by these presents above before-granted, or any portion 
thereof, that then it may be fully lawful and shall be lawful for 
such person or persons, into the premises before granted, or into 
some or any portion thereof, lawfully, peaceably, and without 
penalty, to make way into and enter, and within the space of two 
years, as is aforesaid, in that place to cut down and remove so many, 
such, and so great trees or timber, to be assigned to him in the 
manner aforesaid, and to coirvert them to the uses aforesaid with- 
out any account, or denaria summa, or any thing else, thereout to 
be paid or performed, to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson his heirs or 
assigns, and without any interruption, impediment, or impeachment 
of the said Roger Atkinson, his heirs or assigns, anything in these 
presents to the contrary thereof not withstanding. Moreover, we 
will, and in these presents by strict injunction, direct and command, 
and the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, for himself, his heirs, executors, 
administrators, and assigns, covenants and allows, for and with us, 
our heirs and successors, by the presents, that the aforesaid Roger 
Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, they or he, their several tenants 
in fee farm, or their several tenants for the term of a life, lives, or 
years, and every of them to build and erect their dwelling houses, 
which are to be built or erected upon the premises in a group and 
near the principal house or mansion of the said Roger Atkinson, 
his heirs and assigns, and not in a scattered manner or by them- 
selves, as well for the mutual defence and protection of the said 
Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns aforesaid, as for the erection 
of separate villages in and upon the premises for the service of, and 
public benefit of, our said kingdom of Ireland. Moreover, we will, 
and by the presents, for ourselves, our heirs and successors, by 
strict injunction, we direct and command, and the aforesaid Roger 
Atkinson, for himself, his heirs executors administrators and 
assigns, covenants and allows, for and with us our heirs and suc- 
cessors, by the presents, that the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his 
heirs and assigns, shall from time to time prepare and have in 
readiness in their dwelling houses to be erected or built on or 
within the premises, six bombardi, Anglice musketts and calivers, 
and six tela manualia, Anglice hand weapons, to arm or equip 
twelve men for the defence or protection of the said Roger 
Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, against rebels or other enemies of 
us, our heirs or successors, in our said kingdom of Ireland. And 
moreover, we will, and by the presents, for us our heirs and succes- 



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sors, we grant, and by strict injunction direct and command, that 
the aforesaid castles, towns, lands, tenements, and other premises 
by the presents above foregranted, henceforth be and be held to be 
one entire manor in substance and name, and be for ever called 
the Manor of Coole. And that the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his 
heirs and assigns, shall have and hold, and be entitled and able to 
have and hold, within the said manor, three hundred acres of land, 
distinct and separate, as the demesne lands of the said manor. And 
further we grant and give licence to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, 
his heirs and assigns, that he, his heirs and assigns aforesaid, and 
every of them may have the power and right, they and he, freely 
and without the impeachment of us, our heirs and successors, to 
give, grant, and in any manner to alienate, all and singular the rest 
of the premises aforegranted, any portion thereof, to any person or 
to any persons, their heirs and assigns, to hold of the said Roger 
Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, as of his Manor of Coole 
aforesaid, in free and common soccage, and by suit of court to be 
held twice in the year, rendering such rents and other lawful 
reservations as to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs or assigns, 
shall seem to be most expedient. The statute commonly called 
Quia Emptor Terrca not withstanding ; or any other statute, ordin- 
ance, or provision, any other thing, cause, or matter whatsoever to 
the contrary not withstanding. And moreover we will, and by 
these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, we grant and give 
licence to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns 
that they and each of them may have and hold, and be entitled and 
able to have and to hold, both they and he, in and within the 
precincts and bounds of the aforesaid manor, a court in the nature 
of court baron, to inquire, hear, determine, and transact all and 
singular such things and matters, and in the same manner and 
form which, and according as, in any court baron within our said 
realm of England, or within our said realm of Ireland, ought or are 
wont to be inquired, heard, determined, and transacted. To hold 
before a seneschal or seneschals, by the said Roger Atkinson, his 
heirs and assigns, to be nominated from time to time, and before 
free suitors of said manor of Coole, respectively, and in the same 
court to hold pleas for all and singular actions, transgressions of 
agreement, accounts, contracts, unpaid debts, and for all kinds of 
demands which in debt or damage do not exceed the sum of forty 
shillings sterling, that may happen or arise in or within the pre- 
mises above by the presents aforegranted, and the limits and 
bounds of the same. And that they and each of them may have 
and receive, both he and they, and from time to time, may be 
entitled and able, both they and he, to receive all and singular the 
profits, amercements, fines, commodities, advantages, and emolu- 
ments whatsoever, to such court belonging or pertaining, or in any 
manner thereout accruing or arising, without account, or any other 
thing thereof to be performed or paid to us, our heirs or successors. 
Moreover, we will, and of our further special favour, and from our 
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Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, that we, our heirs and 
successors, henceforth for ever will, year by year, and from time to 
time, relieve, acquit, and keep free from damage, as well the 
aforesaid Eoger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, and every of 
them, as the aforesaid castles, messuages, towrs, lands, tenements, 
inheritances, and all other and singular the premises above by the 
presents aforegranted, and every portion thereof, with all their 
appurtenances, against us, our heirs and successors, of and from 
all and all kinds of corrodies, rents, fees, annuities, pensions, 
tithing?, and all things whatsoever, issuing or to be paid from the 
premises aforegranted, or any part thereof, to us, our heirs or 
successors, or further thereout encumbered, or to be encumbered, 
against us, our heirs and successors ; except of the rent of service 
of tenure, and other charges, above reserved for the premises in 
these presents, further willing, and by these presents, with strict 
injunctions giving it in command, as well to the Treasurers of 
Chancery and the Barons of the Exchequer of us, our heirs and 
successors, as to all and singular, receivers, auditors, and other 
officers and servants of us, our heirs and successors, of our 
kingdom of Ireland, for the time being, that they and every of 
them, upon the mere exhibition of our letters patent, or of the 
enrolment thereof, shall, without procedure by any brief or 
warrant from us, our heirs or successors, in any way obtained, 
make, and from time to time shall cause to be made, to the afore- 
said Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, full entire and due 
allowance and exoneration, clear of and from all and all sorts of 
said corrodies, rents, fees, annuities, pensions, portions, tithings, 
and all things whatsoever, except the aforesaid rendering of 
service of tenure, and the other charges above reserved from the 
premises aforegranted in these presents, as aforesaid, or any of 
them, issuing or payable to us, our heirs or successors, or further 
thereout charged, or to be charged, against us, our heirs or suc- 
cessors, and to be made payable or performable by the said 
Eoger Atkinson, his heirs or assigns. And these our letters 
patent, or the enrolment thereof, shall be, as well to the said 
Treasurers of Chancery, and Barons of the Exchequer, aforesaid, 
as to the aforesaid receivers, auditors, and other officers and 
servants of us, our heirs and successors whatsoever, of our said king- 
dom of Ireland, for the time being, sufficient warrant and ex- 
oneration in their behalf. And moreover, of our further special 
favour, and from our certain knowledge and mere motion, we will, 
and by these presents, for ourselves, our heirs, and successors, we 
grant to the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs and assigns, 
that these our letters patent, or the enrolment of them, shall be in 
all things and for all things, firm, valid, good, sufficient, and 
effectual in law, towards and against us, our heirs and successors, 
as well in all courts of us, our heirs and successors, as elsewhere, 
within our said kingdom of Ireland, or elsewhere, in every place, 
without any confirmation, licence, or permission of us, our heirs 
or successors, henceforward requiring to be procured or obtained 



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by the aforesaid Roger Atkinson, his heirs or assigns. Notwith- 
standing iJl naming or ill reciting, not naming or not reciting, any 
town, village, parish, hamlet, place, or county, in any of which or 
in which the premises above by these presents aforegranted, or 
any portion thereof, do or does exist. And notwithstanding the 
not naming, the ill naming, or not reciting, the aforesaid castles, 
messuages, towns, lands, tenements, inheritances, and other the 
premises above, by these presents aforegranted, or any portion 
thereof. And notwithstanding the not finding the office or 
inquisition of the premises, or of any portion thereof, by which 
the title of us, or of one or more of our progenitors or predecessors, 
of in or to the premises or any portion thereof ought to be found, 
before the completion of these our letters patent. And notwith- 
standing the not reciting, or the ill reciting, of any demise or grant 
for a term of a life, lives, or years, or in fee-tail, or otherwise, of 
the premises, or of any part thereof, previously made, which is on 
record, or not on record. A nd notwithstanding any defects of ascer- 
tainment, or calculation, or statement of the true annual value 
of the premises, or of any portion, or of the annual reserved rent 
for any things whatsoever demised or granted, of the premises, or of 
any portion thereof, expressed or contained or not expressed. And 
notwithstanding that a full, true, and certain mention of the 
names of the tenants, farmers, or occupiers of the premises, or of 
any portion thereof, is not made. And notwithstanding the 
Statute in the Parliament of the lord Henry the Sixth, late King 
of England, our predecessor, made and published at Westminster, 
in the 18th year of his reign, and afterwards, among other things, 
established and confirmed by authority of Parliament in our king- 
dom of Ireland. And notwithstanding any other defects in the 
not correctly naming the nature, kind, sort, quantity, or quality, 
of the premises, or of any portion thereof ; or that express mention 
of the true annual value, or of the ascertaining the premises, or any 
of them, or of other gifts or grants made by us, or any one of our 
predecessors, at a previous time, to the said Roger Atkinson, is not 
made in these presents. 

Any statute, or ordinance, or provision, or any other thing, 
cause, or matter, whatsoever made to the contrary of the premises 
in any respect not withstanding. In testimony whereof, we have 
caused these our letters to be made patent. Witness our aforesaid 
Deputy General of our kingdom of Ireland, at Dublin, this 
Twenty-second day of January, in the year of our reign of 
England, France, and Ireland the eighth, and of Scotland the 
forty -fourth. 

Edgeworthe. 

Certified by 

Francis Edgeworthe. 

Inrolled in the Patents of Chancery of Ireland, of the eighth 
year of the reign of James of England, France, and Ireland, and 
of Scotland the 44th, by me James Clerk in the ollice 

of the Master of the Rolls. 



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Pynnar's survey of Ulster was made shortly after the 
grant of this Patent. It commences thus : — 

o 

" A Brief View and Survey made at several times, and in 
several Places, in the several counties within named, between the 
1st day of December, 1618, and the 28th day of March, 1619, 
by me Nicholas Pynnar, esq. ; and others by virtue of his 
Majesty's Commission, under the great Seal of Ireland, to me and 
others directed, dated the 28th day of November, 1618." 

In the county Fermanagh, under the head of " The Pre- 
cinct of Coole and Tircanada allotted to Servitors and 
Natives," we find the following notice. 

LXV., 1000 acres :— 

" Captain Roger Atkinson hath one thousand acres called Coole. 
Upon this Proportion there is a strong bawne of lime and stone 
sixty feet square, with three flankers. He hath a strong stone 
house, in which his wife with his family dwelleth. He hath two 
freeholders all resident on the land. Here are two watermills, 
one for corn, and another a tucking mill." 

This " proportion," like some pastoral runs in New 
South Wales, was a very liberal 1,000 acres. The Manor, 
according to the Ordnance Survey, contains 4,575 acres 3 
roods 22 perches statute, equal to 2,762 Irish plantation acres. 

It used to be a tradition in my family that the original 
bouse at Castlecoole stood on the hill called Killenure, 
between Lough Coole and the town of Enniskillen. This 
however could not have been the case. Part of the townland 
of Killenure is no doubt shown on the Ordnance map as being 
part of Castlecoole townland. This is a modern mistake 
made by the Ordnance surveyors. There was prior to 1834 
no townland of Castlecoole ; but they made one out of several 
townlands or parts of townlands. Besides, Killenure, although 
it comprises a considerable portion of Lough Coole, which is 
a natural lake of some forty acres, now wholely situate in the 
demesne, was not in the Manor at all, but was one of the 
Church lands of the see of Clogher. The matter however is left 
beyond a doubt by the plan, dated 1709, of the "Old House of 
Castlecoole," the predecessor of the present house. On this plan 
is marked a passage, leading to " the new house." This still 
older house was burnt in 1641 and in 1688, but was probably 
capable of repair, and was I believe converted into the kitchen 
wing of the new house of L709, which was destroyed by fire 
in 1797. The well only remains, and supplies the present 
house by means of a forcing pump, worked by a horse. 

No trace of any other old buildings exists, except of the 
mills, which were I have no doubt situated in the town- 
land of Rossvallan oi Milltown, close to the present 



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Thomas town-bridge. They adjoined the old hilly road 
from Enniskillen to Fintona, which passes over the shoulder 
of Toppid Mountain, along which the judges used to go 
circuit. The mill was removed early in this century to the 
townland of Bally lucas adjoining Cloghtate, and only some 
traces of foundations and walls remain. The road approach- 
ing the Thomastown bridge, has evidently, long ago, been 
diverted at the western side, (independently of the hill having 
been cut in 1877); which leads me to conclude, that originally 
there was a ford across the stream, immediately below the 
mill. The bridge must have been built in the last century. 

In Atkinson's patent nine denominations only are given. 
Three of these have become obsolete whilst six remain, 
though two of them are subdivided. 

Those that are obsolete are — 

1 . Bally drumbrocas (the town of the farm-house) 

2. Keadagh (the flat hill, or the steep hill). 

3. Killynan. 

Those whose names remain are — 

1. Tullyharne.* 2. Carrowmacmea.t 3. Killyvilly. 
4. Garvary.J 5. Lissan § ; and 6. Ballyreagh. || 

The name of Ballydrumbrocas has been quite forgotten 
in the neighbourhood. Dean Reeves, who has been look- 
ing into the matter of the topography of Fermanagh, 
having applied to me for information on the subject, I lent 
him my deeds, and suggested that a ridge in Castlecoole 
demesne, now known as Agharainy and Camphill, but 
formerly as Agharainy and Drumrenagh, might probably 
be the missing site. No one in the locality, not even John 
M'Kervy, my oldest labourer, who had worked either in 
Castlecoole demesne, or garden, since 1804, had ever heard 
of it. It is, however, not an uncommon name in Fer- 
managh. After having examined the deeds Dean Reeves 
wrote to me on 20th December, 1880, as follows : — 

'" I Lave held on to Drumbrugas like a bulldog, and have at 
last satisfied myself that it is now represented by Kilsallagh, 
Glasmullagh, and Thomastown. The name disappeared at a 
very early stage ; and never returned to record. For the Drum- 
brughas, which Leonard assigned on the occasion of Mi--s 
Auchinlech's,1T marriage, was an entirely different denomination, 
situate in the parish of Aghavea, and barony of Maghera Ste- 
phana. I have gone through all your documents with more or 
less care, and I have read Captain Roger Atkinson's original 
patent with much interest. It's the only original Plantation 

* Hill of Sloes. t Quarter of Son of Meth or MacMeith. J Rough Land. 
§ Little Fort. II Grey Town, f In 1719, see page 171. 



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Charter or patent I ever saw ; Lord Enniskillen ought to have one 
for his Enniskillen, not his Florence-court property. I suppose 
Lord Ely has the Hume patents ; and Mr. Archdall one of a 
small proportion. I don't know anyone else in the county, 
except Lord Lanesborough [who would be likely to have one]. 
Lord Erne's ancestor was not a Plantation patentee ; the earliest 
appearance of Crom is in Lord Mountwhanny's patent, which was 
assigned to Sir Stephen Bertie, under whom Bishop Spottiswode 
purchased one eighty year lease of Crom, which I suppose 
descended to a Crichton, who was married to the Bishop's 
daughter Mary, and was subsequently converted into a perpetuity." 

" The most important topographical document relative to the 
manor of Coole, is the recital, not only of the quarter-lands set out 
in the first patent, but also of the tates comprehended in each. 
This is found in the following documents : — 

" 1. License of alienation from Charles I. to Roger Atkinson, 
1640. 

" 2. Roger Atkinson's deed to Arthur Champion, 1640. 

" 3. Henry Gilbert's deed to John Corry, May 8, 1657. 

" 4. Patent of Charles II. to John Corry, 21st July, 1669. 

" The whole four observe the same order, but an inexperienced 
eye would not recognize the old names, or be able to dispose 
them with their sub-denominations in the proper order. I take, for 
instance, the first and second of the quarter-lands as they come — 

" I. Ballydrombrocas — 

Kilsallagh. 
Glasmullagh. 
Moyett-thomas. 
Lessadrombroske. 



"II. Keadagh— 



Knocknevernegg. 



Rosmoland. 
Lecill. 

Gortmullocke. 
Kedath. 
" III. Tullyharne, &c. 

"Now, in the documents all the names run on without the 
slightest distinction, and you will observe, in what I have marked 
II., both Kedagh and last Kedath. They are both the same word, 
only that when first it occurs, it (is) as the name (of) a quarter, 
contained in which was a tate of the same name. Of the denomi- 
nations many of the names are lost, but several have become town- 
lands." .... 

Whilst I accept the general principle of classification thus 
laid down by the Dean of Armagh, 1 am still confronted 
with one topographical difficulty in the case of Drumbrocas 
or Drumbrughas. Whilst the present townlands of Glass- 
mullagh (Greenhill) and Thomastown [successively called 
Moyette-thomas, Mullaghmac thorn as, Mullagh Thomas, 



Thomashill, and Thomastown] together form a ridge, on 
which, owing to the old leading roads to Dublin and Tyrone 
passing through them, there might well have been an im- 
portant farm-house then, as there is now, and as I know there 
has long been in Thomastown ; yet Kilsallagh is quite un- 
connected with them. It is a good mile nearer to Dublin, 
on the old road, and is separated from Glasmullagh by no less 
than three townlands. 

The first of these going south is Tullyharney, which 
originally gave its name to another quarter-land. Then comes 
Killy grama ; and then part of a townland called Ballintarsin. 
This latter is not in the manor. In the map of 1609 it gives 
the name to a considerable tract of country, although now 
it is only a townland of some 221 acres. Moreover, it was 
one of the see of Clogher townlands. 

Kilsallagh is now a small townland of 41 acres to the south 
of Ballintarsin, on the old Enniskillen, Lisbellaw, and Dublin 
road. It is, as it were, an island among the Church lands. 
It consists of a ridge with one farm-house on it. The two 
remaining sub-denominations of Ballydrumbrocas, viz. 
Lessadrombroske and Knocknevern egg are now lost, and 
probably were only the names of fields. 

KEADAGH,the second quarter-land, contained as before men- 
tioned four sub-denominations, viz., 1, Rosmoland ; 2, Lecill ; 
3, Gortmullocke ; 4, Kedath. Rosmoland is obviously Rossy- 
vullen or Milltown. The " v" is, I believe, the phonetic form of 
" m." Milltown Hill now occupies nearly all the townland 
which, literally translated, means the point or wood of the 
Mill. Except a small portion attached to the Thomastown 
farm, where the pound formerly stood, it is all in Castlecoole 
demesne since 1783. Before that there was an earthen fort, 
traces of which still exist near the top of the hill, and to it 
ran the demesne fences. The north side, which was in view 
of the old house of Castlecoole, was then included in the 
demesne. The south side adjoining the mill was held by 
Mrs. Collum, a widow. 

Of Lecill (Grey Wood) and Gortmullocke there is now no 
trace. They may have been fields, and probably coincided 
with Coney burrow and the Bookery Hills. 

Kedath or Kedagh was the hill at the foot of which, near 
Lough Coole, the successive old Castlecoole mansion- 
houses stood, and half way up the north side of which the 
present house stands. The stables and farm-yards are at 
the eastern foot. The gardens are on the southern slope. 

The third quarter-land was Killynan. This name has 
become, as far as the Ordnance maps are concerned, obsolete. 
It however, as a sub-denomination, appeared in family 



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deeds down to a comparatively recent period. But in all 
the maps in my possession, going back to 1718, Killynan 
is called Boimybrooke, a name probably given to it by the 
Corry family, who had, in the last century, a second house 
in the townland facing the brook which divides it from 
Thorn astown. 

The other sub-denominations of Killynan were Kilna- 
maddy, indifferently called Fox wood, which is now shown 
on the Ordnance map as a townland, and Killyree now called 
Killyreagh (Grey Wood). This is now included in Mr. 
Dane's demesne of that name, which is held on a ninety-nine 
years' lease under me. 

The two sub-denominations of Carrickdromrelagh (Rock 
or Ridge of Oak) and Killmateaden, have become obsolete. 

Tullyharne (Hill of Sloes) still survives in Tullyharney 
one of its original sub-denominations. On the latter is 
situated Derryvullen South Parsonage. A considerable 
portion of this townland is leased for ever to Captain 
Collum of Bellevue, as the representative of his father, who 
was born on the farm. The remainder is included in Mr. 
Dane's demesne of Killyreagh. Killybarr of the earlier 
deeds was a sub-denomination of Tullyharne. It is not 
shown on the Ordnance map, but is I suppose included in 
the part of the modern townland of Tullyharney adjoining 
Killyreagh. At one time the names used to appear together 
in leases. 

The two remaining sub-denominations, Killygrania and 
Drumcrow still exist as separate townlands. 

Garvary is now a single townland of considerable size, 
on the road between Enniskillen and Tempo. It gives the 
name to the new Church of Ireland parish formed out of parts 
of Enniskillen, Derryvullen, Derrybrusk, and Magheracross 
parishes. The church, which was opened and consecrated in 
1868, stands at the eastern end of the townland. From a 
point on a cross road dividing Messrs. Whitley's and 
Burgess's farms, about 300 yards to the right of the top of 
Garvary-hill, on the Tempo road looking west, is to be seen 
one of the finest panoramic views in the north of Ireland, 
including Upper and Lower Lough Erne, with Belmore, 
Slieve Russell, Knockninny, and Cuilcagh mountains, in the 
background, and the town of Enniskillen and Castlecoole 
demesne in the foreground. It is a pity that it is not more 
known. 

Carrowmacmea still survives as a townland. It is cut 
across by the G.N.I. Railway. The part to the west is in 

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Castlecoole demesne. Of its six ancient denominations all 
as Irish names are obsolete. Cloaghrolleye may, however, 
have been identical with Cloghtate, which was sold, in 1851 , 
in the Landed Estates Court, by mistake, under the impres- 
sion that it was a see of Clogher townland, it having been 
mapped in error in the Ordnance map as a separate townland. 
Mullaghmore (the Great Flat Hill) was probably the hill on 
the eastern side of the railway on which Mr. Beacom's farm 
is situate; or it might have been the present "White Hill," 
in the demesne, which has a flatfish top. Cunony, Shanno- 
lagh, Dolagh, and Lyslaughkyll may have represented the 
four lulls called M'Mulkin's farm, Clover-hill, Curragh-hill, 
and either White-hill or Beacom's farm, but I cannot pretend 
to identify them with any of those hills in particular. 

Killyvilly is a townland immediately below Garvary, on 
the Tempo road. Garvary glebe is in this townland. 
The greater part of it was at one time occupied by the 
(and mapped) Deerpark. Of its twenty-one sub-denomina- 
tions all but Killjwilly are obsolete. 

Dean Reeves has furnished me with the following scrap 
about Carrowmacmea : — 

There is a proverbial expression current in the parish that 
Carrowmacmea (ceoxnctin THic TTIeit — MacMea's quarter) is the 
finest quarter in Coole. 

Ceoxnum imc TTIeit, ceatp.am p.ae^a tia Ctnle. 
Carro-mac-mea, choice quarter of the Cuil. 

Fi'om this vre conclude that the ancient territory of Cuil com- 
prehended a portion of the present barony of Tirkennedy. — Ord. 
Surv. Letters (E.I.A.), Fermanagh, p. 16. 

Ballyreagh is a very large townland of some 1,858 
statute acres, separated from the rest of the manor to the 
north-east, and adjoining the county T}Tone. There are 
a good man} 7 large farms on it, nearly all held under old 
leases, at low rents. Here is also a National school, in 
which divine service in connexion with Garvary parish is 
held on alternate Sunday afternoons. Part of the townland 
is of a mountainous character, and there is part of a large 
flow turf bog in it, which extends into Tyrone. Lough 
Mulshane is situated in the bog. There are also some 
" giants' graves " on Mrs. Watson's farm. All of its eighteen 
Irish sub-denominations are, as far as I know, obsolete. In 
the last century it was divided into Far Ballyreagh and 
Near Ballyreagh. Sometimes it was called Guffs Bally- 
reajh and Crawford's Ballyreagh, from the names of the 
two tenants who were I imagine practically middlemen. 



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Lassan (or Lissan — a little fort) was the remaining 
quarter-land of the manor. It lies between Garvary and 
Lord Enniskillen's estate. It now constitutes a single 
townland of some 559 acres. Of its twenty sub-denomina- 
tions all are obsolete. 

Augharynagh, though not in the patent of 1611, appears 
in the rental attached to a conveyance from Atkinson to 
Champion in 1640, as a quarter- land with a tate of the same 
name still known as Agharainy (Ferny-field), and four 
others now obsolete. It must not he confounded with a 
nearly similar but obsolete sub-denomination of Lissan. 

In the schedule attached to the conveyance, it is entered 
as leased in fee-farm to Zachary Rampayne, for £10 a year. 
I have the original lease or its counterpart, dated 21st 
November, 1639, signed by Roger Atkinson, and witnessed 
by William (name unintelligible), Edward Davys, and 
Humphry Halloway. 

It conveys to Zachary Rampayne of Agharynagh, for his 
natural life, and after his death to his son John and his 
heirs, or failing his heirs to the heirs of Zachary for ever, 
the quarter-land of Agharynagh and Drumrynagh (Ferny 
Hill), or by whatever other names they may be called, con- 
taining by estimation two great tates of land, with all 
houses, &c, boggs, &c, " watercourses, the water-mills not 
being any [illegible word] hindered, prejudiced, or hurted, 
wayes, easements, &c, &c," in the barony of Coole and Tir- 
kenedy, parish of Derryvoyland, and county of Fermanagh ; 
at the yearly rent of £10, to be paid in England by two 
half-yearly instalments, at the Feast of St. Phillip and St. 
James the Apostles, commonly called May Day, and All 
Saints, commonly called All-hallo wtyd. 

The mills referred to must have been the manor mills at 
Rosmoland, lower down the stream, which divides Camphill 
(which I identify with Drumrynagh) and Killyvilly. These 
two tates form a saddle-backed ridge in Castlecoole demesne, 
crossed at the northern foot by the Great Northern Rail- 
way. 

There are traces of an old Irish earthen fort on Agha- 
rainy. On the top of Drumrenagh, or Camphill, is a very 
conspicuous sycamore tree. At its southern foot there are 
some fine oaks, and in spring a beautiful bank of bluebells 
or wild hyacinths, beside the Deerpark-road. On the top of 
Agharainy-hill, within a few yards of the old fort but in the 
next field, stood within living memory a two-storied stone 
house, of which the foundations can still be traced. It was 
last occupied by a sort of foreman of labourers called 

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Macnamee. This was probably the remains of Rampayne's 
house. It was approached from the Deerpark-road by a 
very steep path called Woodcock -lane, at the foot of which 
are still two very fine old specimens of beech trees. 

In 1639 Roger Atkinson obtained a fresh patent of his 
manor, remitting all consequences by reason of violation or 
omission of the conditions of the Plantation, of which the 
following is an abstract: — 

Charles, etc., etc., etc. — By the advice, assent, and consent of 
Thomas Wentworth, our Deputy General and President of our 
council in the northern parts of England, and other our Commis- 
sioners, agreeably to the effect and intent of our Commission 
under our great seal, dated, at Camburie, the first day of Septem- 
ber in the fourteenth year of our reign ; for and in consideration 
of the fine or sum of £35 5s. 5c?. sterling, paid by our beloved 
subject, Roger Atkinson, of Coole, esquire, into our Exchequer of 
Ireland, for our use, according to the intent of a composition or 
agreement made at our Castle at Dublin, between our said 
Deputy General and the other Commissioners of the one part, and 
the said Roger Atkinson of the other part. We have given, 
granted, bargained, sold, &a, to him, his heirs and assigns, the 
whole manor of Coole, and castle or capital house of Coole, with 
the appurtenances, and all and singular the quarters, towns, town- 
lands, &c., of Bally drombrochus, Kissallagh, Glassmullagh, 
Moyettethomas, Lessdrombroske, Knochnevernogg, Keadagh, 
Rossmoland, Lecill, Gormulloche, Kedagh, Tulloharve, Killigrane, 
Dromcrowe, Killybarr, Tullyharne, Killynan, Killree, Killynan, 
Killmadday, Carrickdromrelagh, Killmaccadan, Carrowmacmew, 
Cinrony, Cleaghwolly, Dolagh, Mullaghmore, Shanolagh, Lis- 
laughill, Killywilly, Knockneynowle, Killinehaugh, Aghomvarte, 
Derrene, Colashe, Mullenygorhye, Aughonyclogh, Tonangue, 
Yataugh, Garroirrie, Gartgrean, Beltybreane, Barragh, Carmady- 
loske, Tullyveagh, Murhery, Augherane, Correglaugh, Dreenene, 
Cragh, Ballyreogh, Kennerry, Cashell, Laughill, Kedaugh, Coole- 
okelly, Alltnedeaghscrough, Creagh, Nelaughtaugh, Loughanas- 
keaghan, Coraghokeelaugh, Tollaghnewhaugh, Tonaugh, Germaugh, 
Cargenourroche, Tonaghwee, Coragh, Wellhussie, Cornenewre, 
Mullenmoore, Lasson, Lesson, Greaghmassagh, Cavaneglogh. 
Deryleeke, Knockrecme, Derree, Knockekerin, Boylagh, Carn- 
wooder, Mullaghneane, Magwire, Tonaghneloye, Greaghmooneagh, 
Augharynagh, Drumrene, Cullcarcke, Crogeappile, and Laught 
Eavill, all which are situate in the barony of Coole Terkenneda, 
in the county of Fermanagh, with all other lands, tenements, 
rights, privileges, whatsoever. And all and singular manor, 
castle, messuages, houses, commons, royalties, &c, &&, reserving 
to us and our heirs, expedition to war Anglice riseing out or 
general hosting therein or any part thereof, and all the denaria 
summa by reason of the same ; reserving also advowsons of churches 



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if any be in or on the premises. To have and to hold, &c, all 
the said towns, townlands, quarters, tates, <fec, &c v of Bally- 
drombrochus, Killsallagh, Glassmollagh, Mollyettethomas, Lisse- 
drombrodie, Knocknevernagg, Killynan, Kellree, Killynon, Killa- 
maddy, Carran, Dromrelagh, Killmaceaden, Carrowmacmew, 
Connony, Cleaghwolley, Dolagh, Mullaghmoore, Shannolagh, Lis- 
laughili, Agharynagh, Augharinagh, Drumrene, Coolkarke, Clos- 
capill, and Laught Eavill, to be held of the Castle of Dublin, at 
the rent of £16 6s. 9cl. It remits, relaxes, and quits claim of all 
the articles, agreements, and instructions of the Plantation, and 
all other conditions and agreements in any former letters patent 
contained, all right and title of re-entry or forfeiture by reason of 
violation or omission of any condition or conditions : and of all 
damages and penalties of forfeiture or otherwise, for unfulfilment 
of the conditions of the Plantation. 

The manor to be known and called henceforth by the name of 
Castle Atkinson, with liberty to hold courts baron every three 
weeks or seldomer, in and for the manor of Castleatkinson, to 
recover debts to the extent of 40s. ; to hold also court leets, and 
right of frank pledge, liberty to impark 500 acres, &c, &c. 

Dated the 28th day of June, Au. 15 (1639). 

(Note by Dr. Reeves) — In this recital the clerk has omitted the majority of the 
names. I suppose he felt that having once ploughed through them, the sooner he 
had despatched the repetition of them the better. 

It may be observed that in the fee-farm grant of Agher- 
ainy Captain Atkinson bargained that the rent should be 
paid in England. He had probably retired to that country, 
and now made up his mind to sell his Fermanagh property, 
and probably all his Irish estates "in the nick of time/' as 
the Dean of Armagh observes, " to escape the troubles of 
'41, in which his Manor Coole successor lost his life." He 
however, was not entirely successful in so doing, as we shall 
presently see. 

Accordingly Captain Atkinson obtained for the consider- 
ation of £5 sterling from King Charles I. a patent, dated 
2nd March, 1639-40, licencing him to alienate the manor 
of Coole to Arthur Champion, his heirs and assigns. The 
Latin original or duplicate is in my possession, and is en- 
dorsed " Ye coppy of ye alien assion of ye Captaine his 
landes." 

It runs as follows : — 

Carolus, Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Rex fidei Defensor, etc. 
Omnibus ad quos presentes litere nostre perveneunt salutem. 
Sciatis quod nos de gratia nostra speciali ac ex certa scientia 
et mero motu nostris, et pro et in consideratiolie quinque 
librarum legalis monete Anglie in hanaperio nostro hujus regni 
nostri Hibernie ad usum nostrum, fideliter solutarum ante 



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sigillationem presentium, per dilectum et fidelem subditum nostrum 
Rogerum Atkinson de Coole in comitatu Farmannagh armi- 
gerum ; Necnon de advisamento et consensu dilectorum et fidelium 
consiliariorum nostrorum in dicto regno nostro Hibernie, 
Willelmi Parsons, militis et barronetti, magistri curie nostre 
wardoruni et liberacionum, &c, Richardi Bolton militis, attumati 
nostri curie nostre wardoruni et liberacionum predicte, et delecti 
nostri Mcholai Loftus armigeri, supervisors nostri ejusdem curie 
in dicto regno nostro Hibernie authorisatorum et appunctatoruni 
ad supervidendum et disponendum inter alia de omni alienacione 
et intrusione sine licentia nostra aut alicujus progenitomm nos- 
trorum factis, (fee. 

Ooncessimus et licentiam dedimus, ac per presentes pro nobis 
heredibus et successoribus nostris concedimus et licentiam damns 
prefato Rogero Atkinson quod ipsa manerium et castrum sive 
capitalem domum de Coole predicto cum pertinentiis, ac omnia 
et singula quarteria, villas, villatas, hamlettas, terras, partes, 
parcellas sive terrioquartaria terre de Leadagh [recte Keadagh,] 
Rossmoland, Leeill, Gortimillocke, Kedagh, Tullyharne, Killi- 
grane, Dromchron, Killybarr, Tullogharne, KeMiwilly, Knockney- 
nowle, Killinehaugh, Aghomdarte, Derrene, Colaslie, Mulleny- 
gorliie, Aghomclogk, Tonaugnevatagk, Garroirry, Gartgroase, 
Baltybreane, Barragh, Carnadiluske, Tullyneagk, Murherry, 
Agherane, Cornegoreglogh, Dreenene, Cragh, Ballyreayh, Kin- 
nerry, Cashell, Loughill, Kedaugb, Cooleokelly, Altnedeagh- 
scrougli, Creagh, Nelaughteiagh, Laughananskragkan, Coragho- 
keelagh, Tollagnnenkaugliy, Tonaugh, Gormaugh, Cargenoon- 
pocke, Tonaghwee, Coraghwellhussey, Corneneur, Mullenmore, 
Lasson Lesson, Greagkmassagh, Capaneglogk, Derryleecke, 
Knocki-ecine, Knockreunekere, Knockerin, Boylagh, Camwooder, 
Mullaglimoane, Mag^^re, Tonaghlieloy et Greaglimoeneagh, cum 
pertinentiis, jacentibus et existentibus in comitatu Fannannaiigh 
predicto, vel tot et tantas inde parcellas quot et quantas eidem 
Rogero Atkinson placuerit dare et concedere warrantizare et 
cognoscere per finem sive fines et per communem recuperationem 
seu communes recuperaciones in curia nostra coram justiciaries nos- 
tris de Communi Banco nostro, et alienare, vendere, barganizare, 
feoffare, confirmare, et warrantizare, per feoffamentum sive feofia- 
menta, concessionem sive concessiones, vel per eorum aJiquod vel 
aliquam, aut aliter, seu alio quocunque modo et forma sive modis 
et formis quibuscunque, valeat et possit, Arthuro Champion de 
Shallocke, in comitatu predicto, armigero, et heredibus et assignatis 
suis imperpetuum. Ac etiam, pro nobis heredibus et successoribus 
nostris, licentiam et plenam potestatem damus et concedimus eidem 
Arthuro Champion quod ipse omnia et singula permissa predicts 
cum pertinentiis de prefato Rogero Atkinson recipere recuperare 
tenere et in omnia et singula premissa intrare valeat et possit, 
habendum et tenendum eadem premissa cum pertinentiis prefato 
Arthuro Champion heredibus et assignatis suis de nobis heredibus 
et successoribus nostris per servicia inde debita, et de jure con- 
sueta imperpetuum. Proviso semper quod si he litere nostre 



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Patentes non irrotulate seu intrate forent in officio auditoris nostri 
curie nostre wardorum et liberacionum predicte infra spatium sex 
mensium post datum presentium, quod tunc vacuerant et nullius 
vigoris et effectius in lege. Eo quod expressa mencio et verus valor, 
&c. In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus 
patentes. Teste predilecto et fidelo consanguineo et consiliario 
nostro Thomse Yicecomte Wentworth Deputato nostro generali 
regni nostri Hibernie, Apud Dublin, secundo die Martii anno 
regni nostri decimo quinto. 

Concordat cum Irrotulamento liter- 
arum Pattentium remanentium 
in Officio Auditoris Curie War- 
dorum, &c. 

per Rich. Newcomen. 

Following upon this, Captain Atkinson on the 22nd April 
1640, executed a conveyance of Manor Coole and some tene- 
ments in Enniskillen and its neighbourhood, or practically of 
the reversion of them, to Arthur Champion of Shannoth co. 
Fermanagh, near Clones co. Monaghan. In this, a rather 
peculiar arrangement was made ; Captain Atkinson was to 
receive £1,650 down, to be paid in England, which was all 
but eight years' purchase on the rental. But he conveyed 
the fee, and Champion immediately executed a lease of the 
whole to him and Edith his wife for sixty years, in case 
either of them should live so long, at £40 a year for their 
joint lives, and £100 a year for the life of the survivor. 

The yearly rental was £210 10s. for the manor, and 
£5 10s. for the Enniskillen holdings. 

I subjoin a copy of the conveyance and rental, and also 
of the fine passed in favour of the purchaser, with a trans- 
lation. From the rental it will be seen that the whole of 
the tenants held by lease, and some by leases for ever or 
fee-farm grants, as seems to have been contemplated by the 
original patent. These latter however have in every 
instance been acquired by the subsequent owner or owners 
of the fee, and put an end to, and I do not recognize the 
name of a single tenant as being the same as of one now 
connected with the estate. 

I may here mention that Griffith's valuation of the 
manor (excluding buildings and the Enniskillen tenements) 
is now £2,362 10s. per annum British currency, equal to 
(nearly) £2,560 late Irish currency. This includes Kedagh, 
which was no doubt in 1640, as now, attached to the man- 
sion house, and the then value of which, say some £20 per 
annum, should be added to the amount of the old rental. 



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Copy Conveyance from Roger and Edith Atkinson to 
Arthur Champion. 

This indenture made the 22nd daye of April] Ao dmi 1640 
and in y e 16th yeare of the raigne of or soveraigne 2 d Charles by 
the grace of G-od of England Scotland France and Ireland 
kinge defender of the fayth &c. Between Roger Atkinson, of 
Castle Atkinson als Castle Coole, in the Countye of ffermanaght 
Esq r . and Edith his wife on the one pte, and Arthur Champion 
of Shannoth in the said county Esq. on the other pte. Wit- 
nesseth, that the said Roger Atkinson and Edith bis wyfe for 
and in consideration of the sum of sixteene hundred and ffyffcye 
pounds of good and lawfull monye oftg in England to them 
before the ensealing and delyveryng of these presents well and 
truly in hande payd. Whereof they doe acquit release and 
discharge the said Arthur Champion his heires executors and 
administrators by these presents, and for and in consideration of 
a lease to be made by the said Arthur Champyon to the said 
Roger Atkinson and Edith his wife of all the Castles lands 
tenements and heredimants, hereby and herein assured and 
conveyed to the said Arthur Champyon and his heirs for the 
terme of Threescore yeares yf the said Roger and Edith shall so 
long lyre att the Rent of Twenty pounds p aim during their 
joynt lyves, and att the rent of £100 p ann during the lyfe of 
the longest lyver of them accordinge to certayne articles indented 
made betweene Humphreye Hallowaye in the behalfe of the 
said Roger Atkinson on the one pte and the said Arthur 
Champion on the other pte which said articles beare date the 
eleaventh daye of Februarye last past, have given granted bar- 
gayned soulded infeoffed released and confirmed by these presents 
doe give grant bargaine sell infeoffe release and continue unto the 
said Arthur Champion his heires and assigns all that the Castle 
Mansion House or Mannor commonly called Castle Atkinson als 
Castle Coole and all the singular the Quarters Towues villages 
hamlets Tates Lands partes portions or halfe quarters of land 
and all other the landes Tenements and herediments commonly 
called by the names of : — 

Ballydrombochus. 

Killsallaghe (now Kilsallagh). 
Glasinollaghe (Glasniullagh). 
Molly ettethomas (Thomashill or Thomastown). 
Lisdrombroske (obsolete). 
ELnocknevernogge (do.) 

Keadagh. 

Rossmoland (Rossyvullan). 
Lecill (obsolete). 

Gartmullocke do. 

Kedath (Castlecoole, part of J. 



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TuLLYHARNE. 




Killigrane. 




Dromcrowe. 




Kyllybarr (Killyreagh). 
Tolyharne. 


KlLLYNAN. 




Kilkee (obsolete). 
Killynan (Bonnybrooke). 
Killmaddye (otherwise Fox wood), 


G ARVARY. 




Dromdelaghe 
Killmaceadem 


(obsolete), 
do. 


Carrowmacmea. 




Connouye 

Cloaghrolleye 

Dolagh 


do. 
do. 
do. 


Mullaghmore 


do. 


Shaunolagh 
Lyslaughkyll 


do. 
do. 


Killivillye. 




Killivillye. 

Knockneynowle 

Killiniehaugh 

Aghonypart 

Derene 


do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 


Colashe 


do. 


Mullynegorheye 

Aughonye 

Clough 


do. 
do, 
do. 


Tonaugnepatough 

Garnirye 

Gartgrease 


do. 
do. 
do. 


Boltikeane 


do. 


Barragh 


do. 


Carmadilushe 


do. 


Tullyreagh 

Murherye 

Augheraine, 


do. 
do. 


Cornogoreglaugh 
Dreenene 


do. 
do. 


Cragh 


do. 


Ballyreagh. 




Kemiteye 
Cashell 


do. 
do. 


Langhill 
Kedaughe 


do. 
do. 


Culeokellye 


do. 



DO 

Ballyreagh — continued. 

Alltnedeaghsrough (obsolete). 



Creagh 

Nelaughttaugh 
Laughanaskeaghan 
Coraghokeelagh 


do. 
do. 
do. 
do. 


Tollaghnarh aughe 
Tonaugh 


do. 
do. 


Gormaugh 

Cargermoukeke 

Tonaughree 


do. 
do. 
do. 


Coraghrellhussie 
Corneneree 


do. 
do. 


Mullenmore 


do. 


Lassan. 




Lessongeoagh 


do. 


Massaugh 


do. 


Capannegloghe 

Deiyoedek 

Knockernre 


do. 
do. 
do. 


Derree 


do. 


Knockenne 


do. 


Boylagk 
Cumredder 


do. 
do. 


Mullaghneane 


do. 


Magirise 

Tonoghneloye 

Greagh 


do. 
do. 
do. 


Moontagh 


do. 


AUGHARYNAGH. 




Agharaynagh 
Drumkene 


do. 
do. 


Culleareke 


do. 


Clostappill and 
Haugktearvll 


do. 
do. 



or by what other name or names soever the same or any of them, or 
any pte of them, are called or known, in as large, ample, and bene- 
ficial manner as the same or any of them were granted to the said 
Roger Atkinson and his heires by Letter Patents from our Sove- 
raigne Lord, King Charles, that now ye [1 same*] are sett, lyinge, and 
being in the Baronye of Coole and Tirkemieda, in the said countye 
of fFermanagh, and also two messauges or burgesse tenements in the 
Town of Enniskellyn, with the outhouses, gardens, and backsides in 
the tenure or occupation of [here there is an erasure and over it 
words like " Fausett nnginb and "] John Cheslen and two acres 
of land called Burgesse acres, nowe or lately in the possession of 
Patrick Stanlye, and all other the freehold lands and tenements of 

* This word is undecipherable in the original. 



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the said Roger Atkinson, in the said county of ffermanagh and 
kingdom of Ireland, and the reversion and reversions, remainder 
and remainders of them, or any of them, together with all castles, 
bawnes, houses, outhouses, buildings, gardens, orchards, hopp- 
grounds, lands, meadows, pastures, setdings, woods, underwoods, 
mylls, myllhouses, mylldams, waters, watercourses, tanhouses, 
dovecoates, Courts Leete, Courts Baron, and all other perquisites 
and pfyttes (profits) soever in the premises, or any of them, incident 
or appertayninge, or accepted, reputed, or taken as any pte (part), 
(pttes) parts, or member of them, or any of them. To have and 
to houlde the said castle mansion house or mannor of Castle 
Atkinson, als Castle Coole, and all other the premises, with their 
and every of their appurtenances unto the said Arthur Champion, 
his heires and assignes, to the oneley and proper use, benefytt 
and behoofe of the said Arthur Champion, his heires and assigns 
for ever. To be houlden of the chiefe lord or lords of the fee by 
the rents thereout due and accustomed. And the said Roger 
Atkinson covenanteth and granteth for himselfe, his heires, 
executors, and administrators, and for every of them, to and with 
the said Arthur Champion, his heires and assigns, and to and with 
every of them severally and respectively by these presents that the 
said Arthur Champion, his heires and assignes shall and may 
quietly and peaceably have, houlde, occnpye, possesse, and enjoye 
the premises, and every pte thereof, freelye and clearlye acquited, 
discharged, and saved harmlesse of and from all former bargaynes, 
sales, suits, grants, jointures, dowers, judgments, executions, 
statute rents, nines, forfaytures, amercements, leases, intrusions, 
charges, and incumbrances whatsoever had, made, commytted, 
suffered, or done, or to be had, made, commyted, sufferred, or done 
by the said Roger Atkinson and Edith, his wife, or any clayminge 
by, from, or under them, or any of them, certayne freehoulders, 
fee-farmes, and leases made by the said Roger Atkinson to the 
persons hereunto in a schedule annexed, for the tyme, and rents 
therein expressed, whereby for the several yearly rents therein 
reserved and mentioned shall bee due and payable to the said 
Arthur Champyon and his heirs after the death of the said 
Roger Atkinson and Edith, his wife, and the longest lyver 
of them, according to the lease above mentioned with sayd 
fee farmers and lessees shall atturne to this feoffment and 
the rents and servyces from and after their said deathe and the 
longest lyver of them due to His Majesty e his heires and succes- 
sors and other Lords of the fee of whom the same or any pte 
thereof are houlders onelye excepted. And that the said Roger 
Atkinson and Edith his wife shall and wyll att all tyme and tymes 
hereafter uppon the request of them or any of them to bee made 
by the said Arthur Champion his heires and assignes and att his 
or their costs and chardges in the lawe make, doe, acknowledge, 
execute, suffer, or cause to be made, done, acknowledged, executed, 
and suffered any other of farther acte and acts, thinge and things, 
assurance and assurances, conveyance and conveyances in the lawe 
whatsoever for the further and better assuringe and sure makinge 



02 

of the premises and every pte thereof unto the said Arthur Cham- 
pion and his heires as by him or them or their counsell learned in 
the lawe shall be reasonably devised and advised or required 
whether ytt bee by fyne, feoffment, recovery or recoveries, with 
single or double voucher or vouchers, release, enrowlment or con- 
firmation, or by any other way or means whatsoever with war- 
rantye against the said Roger Atkinson and Edith, and their heires 
or anye clayminge by, from, or under them, or any of them. In 
witness whereof the parties above said to these present inden- 
tures their hands and seales interchangeably have sett dated the 
Daye and yeare first above written. 

Signed Koger Atkinson. 
Edith Atkinson. 

Schedule. 

A schedule of all such fee-farms and leases as are made by 
Captayne Roger Atkinson of the lands and tenements and here- 
diments wch hee hath soulde to Arthur Champion by this annexed 
feoffment with the yearely rent reserved uppon them wch the said 
Arthur Champion and his heires shall receave after the death of 
the said Roger Atkinson and Edith his wyfe accordinge to the 
( *) of this indenture : — 

£ s. d. 
A ffee-ffarme of the Quarter of Agharinaghe and 
Dromrinagh to Zackarye Rampian and John 
Rampian and the heires of the bodye of the said 
John, dat 21° die Novembris, 1639, whereuppon 
the said Arthur Champion and his heires shall 
receave yearelye as aforesaid, . . . .10 

A lease to the said Zachary Rampian of the Quarter 
of Lyssan, dat eisdm die and anno for 39 years. 
Rent per ann, . . . . . . 30 

A lease to Knocker McGwyre and Edmund 
McGwyre of two great Tates called Ballyreoghe, 
dat 24° Novembris, 1635, for 21 years. Rent 
per ann, . . . . . . . 30 

A lease to John Crawlett, sen., and John Crawlett, 
jun., and Tho. Isaac of two Tates of Garvarye, 
dat 9° Novembris, 1639, for 21 yeares. Rent 
per anm, . . . . . . . .2100 

A lease to Samuel Sutton of the two tates of Killy- 
villye, dat 9° May, 1637, for 33 yeares. Rent 

per ann, 20 

A ffee-farme to Humphrey Hollowaye of Caramc- 
mawe (Carrowmacmea) and Dullaghe, dat 10° 
decembris, 1639. Rent per ann, . . . 11 
A ffee-farme to Henry ffowal of one great tate of 
Caramcmawe called Mullimore, et ad dat eisdm 
die et anno. Rent per ami, . . . .110 

* Word undecipherable — it looks like " exedpton." 



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£ 8 . d. 



A ffee-farme to Willm Chaplin of Killynane, dat 18 

decembris, 1639. Rent per anm, . . . 10 

A ffee-farme to Willm Isaac of Drombohusse, dat 

23° Novembris. Rent per anm, . . .2100 

A lease to Andrew Williamson of half the tate of 
Dromrelagh, dat 4° Novembris, 1639, for 31 
yeares. Rent per anm, . . . . .300 

A lease to Willm Barrett of the two tates of Talli- 
harne and Drumcrowe, dat 24° Novembris, 1639, 
for 41 years. Rent per anm, . . . .15 

A lease to Willm Moon of Glasmulloghe, dat 24° 

Novembris, 1639, for 41 years. Rent per anm, . 600 

A lease to Patrick ffitzsymond of the two tates of 
Killsallagh and Killigrane, dat 25° Novembris, 
1639, for 31 years. Rent per anm, . . . 10 10 

A lease to Willm Chaplin of the tate of Rosevoylan 
et ad from Maye, 1640, for 31 years. Rent per 
anm, . . 12 

A lease in free houlde (sic.) of a messuage cump- 
tinent (sic.) in Eniskillyn to Garret Wilson, dat 
primo Maij 7°, Caroli, for ever. Rent per anm, 2 10 

A ffee-farme to John Cheslen of a messuage and 
cumptiment in Eniskellyn, dat 28 Novembris, 
1637. Rent per anm, 2 

A lease to Patrick Stanlye of two burgesse acres 
near Eniskellyn, dat primo Maij, 1627, for 61 
years. Rent per anm, 10 

Of the above lands all can now be identified, except 
Dromrelagh, which seems to have been a subdenomination 
of Killynan. Kedagh was evidently then as now occupied 
as demesne land. The messuages in Enniskillen no doubt 
are those for which I pay a small head rent to Lord Ennis- 
killen, receiving in turn a rather larger head rent from other 
persons. Of the two burgess acres, one was probably the 
held in Tonystick lately purchased to enlarge the Roman 
Catholic cemetery : the original cemetery may have also 
formed part of it. In any case it was more than " an acre." 
The other " acre " was probably also a field in Tonystick 
near the Tempo road. Part of it was taken some years 
ago for the Irish North Western Railway. 

The transaction was completed by a Bond of Performance 
of the above recited deed, also dated in April, 1640, and by a 
"Fine" passed by Captain Atkinson for the "said Mannor." 
This latter document is indorsed " Ye fine of ye Captayne 
his lands "in a non-legal looking hand, possibly that of 
Champion himself. 



The fine runs as follows : — 

Comitatus Farcnanagh. 

Hec est finalis concordia facta in curia domini Regis apud 
tho Kings Courts in crastino Sancte Trinitatis. Anno regni 
Caroli Dei gratia Anglie, Scotie, Francie, et Hibernie, Regis fidei 
Defensoris, &c., decimo sexto, coram Gerrardo Lowther milite, 
Daniele iMayart milite, et Jacobo Donellan armigero, justiciariis, 
et aliis domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, inter 
Arthurum Champen, armigerum generosum, et Rogerum Attkinson 
et Edith uxorem ejus deforciatores maneriii de Coole alias Castle 
Attkinson cum pertinentiis, ac de uno castro, uno capitali mesuagio, 
ducentis mesuagiis, ducentis cottagiis, duobus molendinis aquaticis, 
uno columbario, ducentis gardinis, tribus pomariis, sexcentis acris 
terre, trecentis acris prati, octingentis acris pasture, quingentis 
acris bosci, quingentis acris, et jampnorum bruerii, sexcentis acris 
more, quingentis acris turbarie, et sexcentis acris marisci, cum 
psrtinentiis, in Coole alias Castle Attkinson, Ballydrombrochus 
Kissallagh, Glasmullagh, Moyettethomas, Lessedrombruske, 
Knocknevernogg, Keadagh, Rossmoland, Leeill, Gortmullock, 
Kedach, Tullyliarue, Killigrane, Dromcrowe, Killybarr, Tully- 
harne, Killynan, Killree, Kiliynan, KLillmaddey, Carrickdromre- 
lagh, Killmaceaden, Carrowmacmew, Cinrony, Cleaghwolly,Dolagh, 
Mullaghmore, Shanolagh, Lislaughill, Killy willy, Knocknenowle, 
Killinehaugh, Aghomuart, Derrene, Colashe, Mullenygorhye, 
Aghonyclogh, Tonangue, Yataugh, Garroirrie, Gartgrease, Balty- 
breane, Barragh, Carnadiluske, Tullyneagh, Murhery, Augherane, 
Carnegoreglaugh, Dreenene, Cragh, Ballyreagh, Kennerry, Cashell, 
Laughill, Kedaugh, Cooleokelly, Altnedeaghscrough, Creagh, 
Nelaughtaugh, Loughanaskeaghan, Coraghokeelagh, Tollaghne- 
whaugh, Tonaugh, Gormaugh, Cargenomrocke, Tonaghvee, Co- 
raghwellhussie, Cornenewre, Mullenmore, Lasson, Lesson, Greagh, 
Massagh, Cavaneglogh, Deryleeke, Knockreeme, DeiTee, Knocke- 
kerne, Boylagh, Camwooder, Mullaghneane, Magwii^e, Tonagh- 
neloye, Greaghmooneagh, Augharynagh, Agharynah, Drumrene, 
Cullcarcke, ClosscappiJl, et Laught Eavill, ac de libera warrenna 
cum pertinentiis ; Necnon visum franci plegii et curiam baronis, 
ac omnibus que ad visum franci plegii et curiam baronis pertinent, 
et bona et catalla waviata et extrahuras unde placitum conven- 
cionis sumptum fuit inter eos in eadam curia, scilicet quod predicti 
Rogerus et Edith recognoverunt manerium castrum tenementa 
liberam warrenam visum franci plegii curiam baronis bona et 
cattalla waviata et extrahuras predict a cum pertinentiis esse jus 
ipsius Arthuri ut ilia que idem Arthurus habet de dono predicto- 
rum Rogeri et Edith, et illi remiseiimt et quiete clamavere de se et 
lieredibus suis prefato Arthuro et heredibus suis imperpetuum. 
Et preterea iidem Rogerus et Edith concessere pro se et heredibus 
ipsius Rogeri quod ipsi warrantizabunt manerium castrum, tene- 
menta, liberam warrenam, visum franci plegii, curiam baronis, et 
bona et cattalla waviata, et extrahuras predicta, cum pertinentiis, 
prefato Arthuro et heredibus suis contra ipsos Rogerum et 



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Edith et heredes ipsius Rogeri imperpetuum, et pro hac recogni- 
tione remissione et quiete clamatione warranta fine et concordia, 
idem Arthur us dedit prefato Rogero et Edith unam esparverium. 

County of Farmanagh. 

This is the final agreement made in the court of y lord the 
king at the king's courts on the morrow of [the feast of] the Holy 
Trinity, in the 1 6th year (June 1 ) of the reign of Charles by the 
grace of God, of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, King, 
Defender of the Faith, &c, before Gerrard Lowther, knight, 
Daniel Mayart, knight, and James Donellan, esquire, justices, 
and other loyal subjects of the lord the King then, in same place 
present, between Arthur Champen, esquire gentleman, and Roger 
Atkinson and Edith his wife, deforciars of the manor of Coole 
otherwise Castle Atkinson, with the appurtenances, and of one 
castle, one capital messuage, two hundred messuages, two hundred 
cottages, two water mills, one dovecote, two hundred gardens, 
three orchards, six hundred acres of land, three hundred acres of 
meadow, 800 acres of pasture, five hundred acres of wood, six 
hundred acres of and heath, 600 acres of moor, 500 acres of 

bog, and six hundred acres of marsh, with the appurtenances, in 
Coole otherwise Castle Atkinson Ballydrombrochus* Kissallagh 
Glassmullagh Moyettethomas Lessedrombruske Knocknevernogg 
Keadagh Rossenoland Leeill Gortmulloch Kedach Tullyharve 
Killigrane Dromcrowe Killybarr Tullyharne Killynan Killree 
Killyvan Killmaddy Carrickdromrelagh Killmoceaden Carrow- 
macmew Cunony Cleaghwolly Dolagh Mullaghmore Shanolagh 
Lislaughill Killy willy Knocknenowle Killmehaugh Aghomuart 
Derrene Colashe Mullenygorhye Aghonyclogh Tonangue Vataugh 
Garroirrie Gartgrease Baltybreane Barragh Carnadiluske Tully- 
neagh Murhery Augherane Carnegoreglaugh Dreenene Cragh 
Ballyreagh Kennery Cashell Laughill Kedaugh Cooleokelly 
Altnedeaghscrough Creagh Nelaughtaugh Loughanaskeaghan 
Coraghokealagh Tollaghnewhaugh Tonaugh Gormaugh Cargenom- 
rocke Tonaghwee Coraghwellhussie Cornenewre Mullenmore 
Lasson Lesson Greagh Massagh Cavaneglogh Derylecke Knock- 
reeme Derree Knockekerne Boylagh Camwooder Mullaghneane 
Tonaghneloye Greaghmooneagh Augharynagh Agharynale Drum- 
rene Cullcarcke Closscappill and Laught Eavill, and of free warren 
with the appurtenances, view of frank pledge and court baron, and 
all things which appertain to view of frank pledge and court baron, 
and goods and chattels astray and estreats, of which a plea of 
convention was taken between them in the same court, to wit, 
that the aforesaid Roger and Edith acknowledged to the manor, 
castle, tenements, free warren, view of frank pledge, court baron, 

* The names in italic are the nine generic denominations recited in the Planta- 
tion patent of 1611. Each of them is followed immediately by its own sub- 
denominations. The names in italic are iu exactly the same order as in the 
original patent and where the name is repeated it denotes that there was a sub- 
denomination of that name which was borne by the group. This is very interest- 
ing and important. — Note by Dr. Reeves. 



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goods or chattels unclaimed, and estreats aforesaid with the 
appurtenances, to be the righful possession of said Arthur, as those 
which the same Arthur had of the gift of the aforesaid Roger and 
Edith, and they surrendered and quit claim for themselves and 
their heirs for ever. And further the same Roger and Edith 
granted for themselves and the heirs of said Roger, that they will 
guarantee the manor, castle, tenements, free warren, view of frank 
pledge, court-baron, and goods and chattels and estreats aforesaid 
with the appurtenances, to the aforesaid Arthur and his heirs as 
against themselves Roger and Edith, and the heirs of Roger him- 
self for ever : and for this acknowledgment, surrender, and quit 
claim, warrant, fine and agreement the same Arthur gave to the 
aforesaid Roger and Edith a hawk. 

The Rebellion of 1641 broke out soon after this. How 
Castlecoole fared will be seen from the following informa- 
tion, extracted from the Fermanagh volume of the Deposi- 
tions of 1641, preserved in MS. in Trinity College Library, 
pp. 621-2 :— 

Captain Roger Atkinson, of Castle Atkinson, in the barony of 
Coole, and Tirkennedy, in the countie of Fermanagh, being 
sworne and examined (then follow these words scored through 
"before His Majestie's Commissioners appointed for taking the 
examinations of the losses of the distressed Protestants in Ireland, 
upon the Holy Evangelists") deposeth and saith, that the three and 
twentieth day of October, 1641, he was possessed off; and was 
constrained to forsake and depart from Castle Atkinson aforesaid, 
for safeguard of his life, so as thereby he left the possession, as 
well of all his lands of inheritance as lease lands, and by means of 
this recent rebellion is deprived of the several goods and 
particulars hereunder mentioned, by the Irish Rebels within the 
said countie, as folio weth (viz.) that is to say — 

£ s. d. 
His charge of buildinge of his castle, and 

houses, and plantinge, and closing of his 

gardens and groundes, the sume of . 1,700 00 00 
His cattle — house-hould stuffe, and other 

goods worth the sume of . . . 1,008 11 06 
Item lease lands at the rent of £30 per 

annum, worth the sume of . . 0,210 00 00 



The sume totall is . . 2,918 11 06 
Besides frehold lands for the several lives 
of the said Captain Roger Atkinson 
and Edith his wiffe, yielding the 
yearly rent of 250 00 00 

And he further saith, that Captain Rory Magwier, Donogh 
Magwier, Cochonaght Magwier, Hugh Magwier, Neise O'Hosey, 
and Oghey O'Hosey, Donogh Maccaffary, Phelim O'Cassidy, 
and the sept of the O'Flannagans as this examinate hath 



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heard, were all out in actual rebellion, together with Flearagh 
MacHugh, Bryan McHugh, and diverse others at the time 
aforesaid. And further sayth, as he hath credibly heard, that the 
Irish rebells did set fire on the Castle of Lisgoole, so that many 
Protestantes seeking to essaye out of the said castle were burnt, 
and cruelly murthered ; and likewise sayth, that he heard that 
divers Protestants who had a while defended the Castle of Tully, 
belonging to Sir George Hume, after yeilded it upon quarter; 
whereupon the rebells contrary to their promise to them, did 
presently murther and kill them all (save only the Lady Hume.) 
And also sayth that he hath heard that the said rebells kiled and 
murthered divers persons at Lowtherstown ; as namely, Mr. Flacke, 
Clarke, and his wife, Gerrard Redmond, and his wife, with many 
others whose names he remembreth not. 

(Signed), Roger Atkinson. 
Jur. xxvi*° Junii, 1643. 
Will. Aldrick. 
Joh. Watson. 
Hen. Brereton. 
Jonh Sterne.* 

Nota. — The land above is sold to Mr. Champin, and an estat 
only left for Mr. Atkinson and his wife, for their two lives, paying 
£20 per annum to Champin ; and after either of their deaths 
£100 per annum. 

There is another deposition in the book by Captain Atkinson, 
to much the same effect. The latter part of it is practically a copy 
of the foregoing. No. 22, pp. 16 and 17. 



The signatures are authographs. 



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CHAPTER VIII. 

ARTHUR AND JOHN CHAMPION, AND HENRY GILBERT, 

A.D. 1640-55. 

Murder of Arthur Champion— Deposition of his widow — She remarries 
Henry Gilbert — Who conveys the estates to Emery Hill in trust — Sale 
of the Castlecoole Estate to John Corry, in 1655. 

Arthur Champion did not long enjoy his new estate. The 
following is from the evidence of John Cormick at Lord 
Maguire's Trial : — 

" Presently after, upon the 29th of October, one Captain Rori 
MacGuire took upon him the managing of all businesses in his 
absence ; he fortified first the Castle Hasen, the house wherein he 
dwelt himself ; he took in the castle of one Edward Aldrith, Esq. ; 
he put out all the English there ; he went to the town, burnt that, 
but killed none of the men ; went thence to another place, and 
hanged one Eleazar M., one that was Clerk of the Peace of the 
county ; and from thence he went to Newtown, four miles off from 
it, took in the town, stript and disarmed all the Protestants that 
were in the church ; the next day after marched away, and killed 
and destroyed most of the English in those parts; murthered 
Arthur Champion, Esq. ; and many more."* 

The Rory Maguire who slew Arthur Champion was Lord 
Maguire's brother.t 

The following information respecting Arthur Champion's 
death is extracted from the Fermanagh Volume of the 
Depositions of 1641, in Trinity College Library, page 25, 
No. 81. 

Alice Champin the late wife of Arthur Champin late of 
Shanoge in the county of Fermanagh, esq., being duly sworn de- 
poseth and sayth^: that the 20th day of October, 1641, her said late 
husband was assaulted and cruelly murthered before his owne gate 
at Shanoge aforesaid, by the Maguires and others theire adherents, 
whereof she well remembreth that there were present at the same 
murthering of him, Don Carrage Maguire of (blank) in the countie 
of Fermanagh, gent., Edmond Carragh Maguire of Annaghhard 
in the said county, gen., Redmond Macowen Maguire of (blank) 
in the said countie, gent., and Patrick Oge Macrosse Maguire of 
Borfadda in the said countie, gent., and others to the number of 
100 persons or thereabouts, and that they murthered and killed 

* Trial of Connor Lord MacGuire, p. 225 (Ito Dublin, 1721). 
t Dean Reeves — letter from, 22nd February, 1881. 

| The greater part of the page of MS. which follows is scored through ; it 
continues, "that on the 20th day of October, &c," as in the text. 



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also with him the said Arthur Champin six other persons at Shan- 
oge aforesaid, as, namely, Thomas Champin, Thomas Iremonger, 
Humphrey Littlebury, and Christopher Linis, gent., John Morrice, 
and Hugh Williams, yeomen. And that afterwards they killed 
and murthered thereabouts about the number of xxiv. Englishmen 
more. 

And she hath heard the said Rebells say, that they were 
severally commanded and directed by the Lord Maguire (now in 
the Castle of Dublin), that they should not spare the said Arthur 
Champin her husband, but murther and kill him, and the two 

* that were his followers and tenantry : and sayth that after 
they had kild him the said Arthur Champyn they murthered and 
killed Henry Crosse, and did hang, viz., Joseph Crosse, as they 
were demanded by the said Lord Maguire. And that afterwards 
they forcibly entered the said Castle of Shanoge, and upon all 
t the goods and chattels, jeweles, money, plate, household 
stuff, stock of cattle, corne, manor and lande aforesaid within the 
county of Fermanagh aforesaid. And immediately after they had 
so entered the said Castle, they burned it downe to the ground. 
Also they burned the Castle of Coole alias Castle Atkinson, which 
said Castle and buildings are valued at one thousand six hundred 
pounds. 

And also sayth that by the generall Insurection and Rebellion 
of the Irish in this Kingdom, she hath been and still is in hazard 
of losing all her rents, houses, and landes, near the cittie of Dublin 
aforesaid. 

And further sayth that she hath heard it spoken by the Rebel- 
lious Irish, within the said countie, that they had done nothing in 
this their rebellion, but what they had the King's broad seale to 
show for, and that the now Bishop of Londonderry was to take 
the cittie of Londonderry on their behalf, and that they had 
done nothing but what her J majesty well knew of and was privy 
unto. 

And further they said that Sir Phelim O'Neill should be king 
of Ireland, and that he the said Sir Phelim had received divers 
letters from Her Majesty to this purpose, that they went not about 
their work wisely. 

Likewise the said rebells said that the Erie of Strafford was the 
plotter of this their rebellious riseing. And if the said Erie had 
been living, they should not have had so much trouble in van- 
quishing of Ireland, as they have had. And that the said Erie of 
Strafford's sonn was gone on into England to raise forces to come 
on againe into this kingdom, to releeve and help them the rebells. 
And she heard the said rebells also say, that they would send fifteen 
thousand Irishmen on into England before midsummer daie next, 
to releeve the papists, and that they would give a great sum of 
money on condition that they had our gracious King Charles his 
head. 

* A word abbreviated, perhaps meant for " Crosses." 

t An unintelligible abbreviation. 

t Sic. " his " is erased and " ber " written over. 

H 2 



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And further sayth that the said rebells would not permit or 
suffer the corpses of the dead, who were soe murthered at the 
Castle of Shanoge aforesaid, to be buried until such time as a 
quarter of one of the persons so murthered was devoured and eaten 
by doggs. The said rebells did burne (as she heard them boast them- 
selves), in the Castle of Lisgoole, within the county of Fermanagh, 
of Scotch and Englishmen, women and children, the number of 
nyntie persons or thereabouts. And that after one of the said 
women, who leaped out of a window to save herself from being so 
burned, was cruelly murthered and killed by them, and the next 
morning they finding a young chyld of his (sic) lying sucking the 
dead mother's breast, they killed the said child. And when the 
said house was soe burning, the said rebells said among themselves 
reioycingly, Oh, how sweetly doe they fry ; she heard them alsoe 
say that they had killed soe many Englishmen, that the grease or 
fatt that thereby remained upon their swords or speares might 
have made an Irish candle. 

And she likewise heard that at the towne of Belturbett, in the 
county of Cavan, the said rebells had drowned of English women 
and children, the number of 30 persons or thereabouts. And fur- 
ther sayth that shee was at the very first restrained and kept as a 
prisoner with and by the said rebells, with whom she soe remained 
for the space of 19 weeks, and untill she gave unto one Laughlin 
Roe MacMaghan, one of the said rebells, the value of £20 for his 
paines and reward to convey her from them, and carry her safe to 
one Mr. Edward Dowdall's, of Monkstowne, in the county of 
Meath, nere unto the hill of Tarrah, which he did and there left 
her, when the said Mr. Dowdall did furnish* men and horses 

to have brought her saffe to Castleknock, but upon her way about 
Dunshaghlin certaine other rebells there mett her, tooke from her 
the said horses, and forced her to return to Monkstoune aforesaid, 
where she remained until the late expedition, and goeing out of 
the English army into the countie of Meath. When one Sir Richard 
Creenville, and Sir Thomas Newcomen, comeing into the said Mr. 
Dowdall's house at Monkstoune aforesaid, where this deponent 
then was. The said Sir Thomas Newcomen knowing this deponent, 
and she was by them deluded and conveyed by a safeguard to the 
citty of Dublin ; and within that time of her soe being amongst 
them heard and sawe what she deposes. And further saith 
that divers rebells coming from Tredarth,t divulged and com- 
monly gave out, that the Erie of Ormonde, the Lord Dillon, 
and the Lord of Howth, had surprised and taken Dublin, and had 
parted it amongst them. Soe as they in the north needed not to 
trouble themselves to come there. And that the consultation at 
Tredarth was that the Lord of Ormond should for that exploit 
be made King of Ireland. But afterwards when the rebells heard 
that the Erie of Ormonde had not taken Dublin, but contrary 
wise did pursue the rebells, then they grievously exclaimed against 
him and cursed him, calling him the base and treacherous Lord of 

* An abbreviation or a number here. f Drogheda. 



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Ormonde and traitor, and using many other fowle and opprobrious 
words against him. 

Jur 14th Aprilis, 1642, cora. 

Johe Watson, and 
Wilto Aldrich .* 

I have a document entitled " A Catalogue of the Deeds 
and Papers relating to the several Estates, and to the 
Family of Castle Coole, perused by me in September, 
1727," in the handwriting of Mr. Armar, who was at that 
time (1727) acting as trustee for the estate for the then 
minor owner. After the entry of Captain Atkinson's fine 
for the manor, I find the following note : — 

"Arthur Champion was killed in ye war of '41, and left no 
issue by his wife, Alice, who survived him, nor any other heir but 
his brother, John Champion, who, with Alice, his sister-in-law 
withdrew to England, and there said John disposed of his title to 
Emery Hill in manner following — 

" 7. John Champion's lease for a year to Emery Hill. 

" 8. John Champion's release to Emery Hill of ye mannors of 
Castle Coole and Shannoek, dated in ye year 1646. 

"9. Exemplification out the Courts of said deeds from Champion 
to Hill. 

"10. Champion's receipt of ye consideration money for said 
sale." 

This last deed recited that John Champion of the Liberty 
of the Tower of London, gent., acknowledged to have re- 
ceived of Mr. Emery Hill, of Westminster, brewer, at several 
times eighty-seven pounds sterling, which, together with 
thirteen pounds costs and charges laid out for his use 
(whereof he had produced a bill of the particulars), is one 
hundred pounds sterling, which, with one deed of annuity 
of forty pounds a year to be perfected by Henry Gilbert, 
esq., to the said John Champion, aod Saxijh, his wife, and 
the longer lyver of them, is in full payment and satisfaction 
of the mannors and Lands of Castle Coole and Shannoth, 
in the kingdom of Ireland, which the said John Champion 
by his deed bearing date the eight-and-twentieth day of 
April, 1646, had conveyed to the said Emery Hill ; with in- 
tent that the said Hill should, on perfection of the said deed 
of annuity and reimbersement of the said hundred pounds by 
the said Henry Gilbert, reconvey the said lands to the said 
Henry Gilbert, and his heirs (he being then in possession of 

[* In copying this deposition I have written the contracted words at 
length in order to make them more intelligible to the reader.] 



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them in right of his wife Alice, the late wife and relict of 
Arthur Champion, eldest brother of the said John Champion), 
&c. &c. 

This deed was witnessed by Jo. Tyson and Robert 
his 
Rayn + ton, and was produced and marked in subsequent 

mark, 
litigation to be hereafter alluded to. One of these exhibits 
is dated 3rd November, 1681. 

Mr. Armar's catalogue has here the following note : — 

" Hill purchased in trust for Henry Gilbert, esq., who had 
married Alice, the widow of Arthur Champion, and Hill conveys 
said mannors to said Gilbert in manner following : — 

" 11. Emery Hill's lease for two months to said Gilbert and 
his wife Alice, of Castlecoole and Shannoth. 

"12. Emery Hill's release of ye same to said Gilbert and his 
wife, dated in ye year 1646. 

" Alice, ye wife of Gilbert and widow of Arthur Champion dies, 
and Gilbert marries Galthrid St. Leger, acid in ye year 1655 
Gilbert and Galthrid do, by deeds of lease and release, sell and 
convey ye said mannor of Castle Coole to John Cony, of 
Belfast." 

Then follows a list of deeds, viz., a lease by Gilbert and 
his wife of Castle Coole for two months to Corry ; a release 
of the same, and a fine passed by them for said manor; a 
receipt for £860, the purchase-money ; a statute staple 
acknowledged by said Gilbert to Corry for security of his 
title and for £1,500 ; the uses of fine passed by Gilbert and 
his wife declared to be in favour of Corry ; and a confirma- 
tion of Gilbert's sale to Corry made by William, son to 
Gilbert. These were the methods by which property was 
conveyed in those days. I am not aware how the manor 
of Shannock or Shannoth passed out of the Champion 
family. It is situate near Clones, and I am informed that 
the townland of the name now belongs to Major Auchinlech. 



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CHAPTER IX. 

JOHN CORRY, 1655-81. 

His token— His receipt for the purchase money of Castlecoole — Defect 
in the title — Compromises. 

John Corry, according to Sir Bernard Burke, had emigrated 
from Scotland to Ireland. His wife was Elizabeth Johnstone, 
said to have been of the family of the Marquis of Annandale. 
At the time that he purchased Castlecoole, during the Com- 
monwealth, he was settled at Belfast as a merchant. In the 
4th volume of the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy,* 
appendix iv., is a catalogue of Tradesmen's Tokens, issued in 
Ireland between the years 1637 and 1679, by Aquilla 
Smith, M.D., m.r.i.a., at page 30 of which, among the Belfast 
tokens (29 in number), is No. 68 — 

IOHN. CORRY, Of BELLFAST, MARCHANT, 1656. 

In the same Belfast list are George Macartney, ancestor 
of Earl Macartney; James Bigger, 1666; John Givan; 
Michael Bigger, 1657. The other authority where this token is 
mentioned, is Benn's History of the Town of Belfast, 8vo. 
London, 1877. At page 461, there is a drawing of the two 
sides, and the following observation, " John Corry, of 
Bellfast, Marchant." This token is perforated in the centre, 
and is indistinct. The ° for its circulating value is large, 
and unmistakable. In Dr. Smith's catalogue, from a better 
specimen, the date is made 1656. If any date has ever been 
on this one it is not now to be distinguished. 

The following is the text of the acknowledgment of, or 
receipt for, the purchase-money of Castlecoole : — 

" Be it knowne unto all men by these presente, That I Henry 
Gilbert, of Killmincher in Queene's Countie, Esquire, doe 
acknowledge and confess that I have received and am fully 
satisfied by John Currie, of Belfast, in ye Countie of Antrym, 
merchant, the full sum of eight hundred and sixtie pounds sterling, 
currant and lawfull money ; which was satisfyed unto me by ye 
said John in full satisfaction of the fine or purchase money which 
he was to pay unto me for the Castle, Towne, and Lands of Castle 
Coole, alias Castle Attkinson, in ye Countie of ffermanagh ; which 
I have bargained, sold, and released unto him, his heirs, and 
assignes for ever : And I doe by these presente for myselfe, my 
heires, executors, administrators and assignes, acquite, remise, and 
for ever discharge the said John Currie, his heires, executors, 

* Dean of Armagh — letter from. 



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and administrators, and everie of them, and from ye aforesaid 
sum and everie part thereof, and of and from all clayme and 
demand thereunto, or to anie part thereof, for ever : In witness 
whereof, I have hereunto sett my hand and seale, the twentie- 
second day of November, 1656. 

Hex. Gilbert. 
Signed, sealed, and delivered 

in the p e sence of 
Robert Yeates. 
Thos. Houghton. 
Samuel Nestor." 

The deed declaring the uses of a fine, by Gilbert, in favor 
of Cony, sets forth that there was one castle, one capitall 
messuage, 200 messuages, 200 cottages, two water-mills, 
one " Done" (? Dower) house, 200 gardens, three orchards, 
* 600 acres of land, 300 acres of meadow, 800 acres of pasture, 
500 acres of wood, 500 acres of furze and heath, 600 acres 
of moor, 500 acres of turbary, and 600 acres of mariss, with 
the appurtenances. It then sets out the several denomina- 
tions, and adds — 

" And also of the view of ffrancpledge and a Court Barron, 
and of all, etc., to the view of ffrancpledge and to a Coiut Barron 
belonging, and of wayveel goods and Chattels, and Estrayes in 
the County of ffermanagh, <tc." 

The acreage given in this document amounts to 5,400, 
equal to S,()99 statute acres. It has been before stated 
that the manor really contains some 4,575 statute acres. 
It will be observed that the purchase-money was little more 
than half of what Arthur Champion had paid to Roger 
Atkinson in 1650. This may be accounted for in two ways. 
First, the unsettled state of the country, and secondly, to 
a defect in the title. 

Mr. Armar in his catalogue says : — 

" It appears by some deeds now " (1727) " in being, that John 
Champion did, previous to his sale to Hill, convey in ye year 
1641, for some considerations, all his right and title to ye Manor 
of Shannoth, and his lands near Inniskilling, to Jo : Pembridge 
and Robt, Raynton." 

His list then continues : — 

" 20, Jo : Champion's Lease for a year to Pembridge and 
Raynton of said manor and lands. 21, Jo : Champion's Release 
to Pembridge and Raynton of the same." 

I have before mentioned that Robert Raynton (a marks- 
man), was one of the witnesses to the receipt given by 
John Champion in 1646. He and Mr. Pembridge are 

* Probably meaning arable land. 



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described as John Pembridge, of Clement's Inn, in the county 
of Middlesex, gent., and "Robert Raynton, of St. Botolph's 
without Aldgate, London, tailor. Tt subsequently appeared 
that Raynton had for himself, in 1 643, executed a release to 
John Champion : Pembridge, however, appears to have re- 
tained this document until 1665, when it was given up to 
James Corry, on behalf of his father and of Gilbert Eccles. 

Mr. Armar has another note. 

" The title which these gentlemen derived from Champion, as 
above, occasioned a dispute between Jo : Corry, who purchased 
from Gilbert before mentined, and which dispute was compromised 
between James Corry, son to y e s d John, and Harper and Parley, 
Attorneys for Pembridge, and they oblige themselves by articles, 
for a consideration there-in mentioned, y* Pembridge shall convey 
and give up all Champion's papers to Corry." 

The list continues — 

" 22. Articles of Agreement between Harper, Farley, and James 
Corry. 

"23. Pembridge's conveyance by lease and release of ye mannor 
of Castle Coole to Ja : Corry in pursuance of s d articles. 

" Papers delivered up to Ja : Corry in pursuance of said 
agreement. 

"24. A conveyance from Jo : Champion to Pembridge and 
Raynton of all his estate in England which he inherited from his 
brother Arthur. 

" 25. A conveyance from s d Champion to Pembridge and Rayn- 
ton, of all the estate he was entitled to in right of his brother 
Arthur, in Ireland. 

" 26. Raynton's release to s d John Champion." 

The nominal consideration of ten shillings is mentioned 
in the lease for a year, dated 27 Jan., 1641-2 (No. 20), of 
the castle of Shannoth, commonly called Shannoth Castle, 
&c, in the county ffermanagh, in the province of Ulster and 
realme or kingdom of Ireland, and of all the castles, mannors, 
lands, &c, "lyeing and beeing neare the towne of Enniskillen, 
&c, lately purchased from Roger Atkinson,Esqre.,&c.,&c., and 
all his other castles, &c, beeing within the citty or county 
of Dublin, or elsewhere within the realme or kingdom of 
Ireland." 

In the deed of conveyance (No. 24), dated 14 January, 
1641-2, it is stated to be made "in consideration of a cer- 
tain competent sum of money." The property conveyed is 
stated to be at Illford, in the county of Essex ; in Sparrow 
Ally in the parish of St. Buttolph's without Allgate ; in or 
near the town or city of Dublin, in the kingdom of Ireland, 
or elsewhere within the same kingdom; or situate or being 
within the kingdom of England, late in the tenure or occu- 



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pation of Arthur Champion and Thomas Champion, deceased, 
and which had descended and come to the said John Cham- 
pion; and that he would at all times thereafter, during the 
space of seven years next ensuing the date thereof, do all 
things necessary to secure their title, at their reasonable re- 
quest and at their cost. 

There is nothing that I can ' see in the document to show 
that it was a sale of an ordinary kind and not a mortgage, 
except it be the mysterious way in which the consideration 
was stated. Still, from the fact of Raynton having in 1643 
reconveyed his interest to Champion, it looks as if there 
was something behind what appears on the face of the deed. 
The deed from Raynton briefly recites the former deed, 
notices that the property had descended to John from his 
late brother Arthur Champion, esq., and Thomas Champion, 
gent., deceased, and then, in the amplest manner, releases 
John Champion from all debts, sums of money, &c, affecting 
real or personal property. 

The release from "John Pembridge of Brilly, in the 
county of Hereford, gent., to John Corry, of Castle Coole, 
in the county of Fermanagh, Esq.," and dated 10th October, 
3 665, recites that Pembridge had, on the previous day, 
granted Corry a lease for two months of Castle Atkinson, 
alias Castle Coole, and now for the sum of two hundred 
pounds sells and releases the same to him. 

Previously to this, Richard Farley of Dublin gentleman, 
and Thomas Harper of Morton in the county of Hereford 
gentleman, had bound themselves on behalf of Pembridge, 
in £2,000 to James Corry, on behalf of John Corry and 
Gilbert Eccles, to carry out the agreement which had been 
entered into between them. This bond was dated 12th 
November 1664, and was witnessed by H. Ingoldesby, Rob 
Shapute, Lan. Carleton, and Eban Price. 

Thus ended this attack upon John Corry 's title to his 
property hj a compromise, the pecuniary amount of which 
equalled not quite one year's rental of the estate. He seems 
to have been left in peace, as far as the representatives of 
former owners were concerned, until 1676, when a new 
claimant appeared in the person of another son of John 
Champion's, his son William having, as before mentioned, 
confirmed the sale to Corry at the time it was made. 

Mr. Armar has another note in his catalogue upon this 
matter. 

"In or about ye year 1676, Arthur Champion, as heir to said 
John, and nephew to Arthur first mentioned, commenced a law 
suit against Cony and others, for ye said mannors, sold and con- 



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veyed as above said, but in or about ye year 1681, he entered into 
an agreement with said Corry, and made ye following convey- 
ances." 

Then follows a notice of a lease for a year, a release, the 
consideration being £150, and a fine passed by Arthur, who, 
says Dr. Reeves, "is described as of the city of Cork, gent, 
but he seems to have sunk in the world, for the deed is sub- 
scribed " Arthur Campion, his A. C. mark." The writing of 
the fine is careless and very difficult in some places." 

The text of the Fine is as follows — 

Comitatus Fermanagh, scil : 

Hec est finalis concordia facta in curia domini Regis apud the 
King's Courts a die Pasche in quindecim dies anno regni Caroli 
secundi Dei gratia Anglie Scotie Francie et Hibernie Regis, Fidei 
Defensoris etc., tricesimo tertio coram Johanne Keating armigero, 
Roberto Johnson, armigero, et Adamo Cusacke, armigero, justi- 
ciariis, et aliis domini Regis fidelibus tunc ibidem presentibus, 
inter Jacobum Corry armigerum generosum eet Arthurum Cham- 
pion, de civitate Corke, generosum deforciatorem de manerio de 
Castle Atkinson alias Castlecoole cum pertinentiis in comitatu 
Fermanagh predicto, nee non de uno castro, ducentis messuagiis, 
ducentis cottagiis, decern columbariis, uno molendino falonico, uno 
molendino aquatico, quadraginta horreis, quadringentis gardinis, 
decern pomariis, octingentis acris terre, ducentis acris prati, octin- 
gentis acris pasture, ducentis acris bosci et subbosci, quinquaginta 
acris jampriorum et bruerie, et centum acris more, in Ballydrom- 
brochus, Killsallaghe, Glassmollaghe, Mollyetethomas, Lessedrom- 
broske, Knocknevernogge, Keadagh, Rosmoland, Leeill, Gartmul- 
locke, Kedath, Tullogharve, Killigrane, Dromcrawe, Killybar, 
Tolyharne, Killynan, Killkee, Killynan, Killmadie Carran, 
Dromrelaghe, Killmaceaden, Carrowmacmere, Connony, Cleaghi- 
solley, Dollagh, Mullaghmore, Shannolagh, Lislaughill, Killiwillie, 
Knockneynowle, Killinehaugh, Agkonyvart, Derene, Colash, Mul- 
lenegorhey ; Aughonie, Clough, Tonnguevataugh, Garwirre, Gart- 
grease, Boltibreane, Barragh, Carmadunske, Tully veagh, Mureherne, 
Augherane,Cornegoreglaugh, Derrynenene, Cragh,Ballyreogk, Ken- 
nere, Cashell, Laughill, Kedauagh, Cooleokelly, Altnedeaghsrough, 
Creagh, Nelaughtlaugh, Laughanaskeaghan, CorraghoKeelagh, Tol- 
laghnawhaughe, Tonaugh, Comma gh, Cargennonorke, Tonaghwee, 
Coraghwellhussie,Cornenewre,M.ullenmoore,Lassan,Lessen,Greagh 
Messaugh, Cavennoghlogh, Derryleeke, Knockrenne, Dereeknow- 
kerran, Boylagh, Cunevooder, Mullaghneane, Magwire, Tonaghe- 
loye, Greaghmooneagh, Agharinagh, Agharinaugh, Drumrene, Cull- 
carke, Closchappill, et Laughteaville, cum pertinentis in baronia 
de Tirkenneda, in comitatu Fermanagh predicto, ac etiam de 
duobus messuagiis sive tenementis communiter vocatis Burgesse 
tenementis in villa de Eneskillen cum pertinentis, nuper in posses- 
sione Garret Wiggins et Johannis Cheslin, ac de duobus acris terre 
vocatis Burgesse acris, nuper in possessione Patrick' Stanly in villa 



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de Eniskillen predicta. Necnon de curia lete, curia baronis, visu, 
franci plegii, ac omnibus que ad visum franci plegii pertinent, 
waviatis, extrahuris, libera warrena, escaetis cattail is felonum 
waviatorum fugitivorum ut legatorum ac etiam omnibus cunque 
juribus jurisdictionibus privileges et franchisis eidem Arthur o 
Champion et heredibus suis, ut de manerio predicto spectantibus 
sive appertinentibus, in comitatu Fermanagh predicto, unde per 
liberam convencionem suam fuit inter eos in eadem curia, scilicet 
quad predictus Arthurus Champion recognovit manerium castrum 
et tenementa predicta cum pertinentiis esse jus ipsius Jacobi ut 
ilia que idem Jacobus habet de dono prefati Arthuri, et ille 
remisit et quiete clamavit de se et heredibus suis prefato Jacobo et 
heredibus suis imperpetuum, et preterea idem Arthurus concessit 
pro se et heredibus suis quod ipse warrantizabit manerum castrum 
et tenementa predicta cum pertinentiis prefato Jacobo et here- 
dibus suis imperpetuum, et pro hac recognitione remissione quiete 
clamatione warranta fine et concordia, idem Jacobus dedit prefato 
Arthuro centum et quinquaginta libras sterlingorum.* 
County of Fermanagh, to wit : 
This is the final agreement made in the court of the lord King 
at the King's courts, on the Quindima of Easter, in the thirty-third 
year of the reign of Charles the Second, by the Grace of God, of 
England Scotland France and Ireland King, Defender of the 
Faith, etcetera, before John Keating, esquire, Eobert Johnson, 
esquire, and Adam Cusacke, esquire, Justices ; and other loyal 
subjects of the King then and there present, between James 
Corry,t esquire, gentleman, and Arthur Champion, of the City of 
Corke, gentleman, deforier of the manor of Castle Atkinson, 
otherwise Castlecoole, with the appurtenances, in county of Fer- 
managh aforesaid, and also of one castle, two hundred messuages, 
200 cottages, ten dovecotes, one fulling mill, one water mill, forty 
barns, four hundred gardens, ten orchards, 800 acres of land, 200 
acres of meadow, 800 acres of pasture, 200 acres of wood and under- 
wood, fifty acres of gorse and heath, and a hundred acres of moor, 
in Bally drombroclms, Killsallaghe, Glassmollaghe, Mollyetethomas, 
Lessedrombroske, Knocknevernogge, Keadagh\ y Rossmoland, Leeill 
Gartmullocke, Kedach, Tullogharve, Killigrane, Dromcrawe, Killy- 
bar, Tolyharne, KUlynan, Killkee, Killynan, Killmadie, Carran, 
Dromrelaghe, Killmaceaden, Carrowmacmere, Connony, Cleaghi- 
tolley, Dollaph, Mullaghmore, Shannolagh, Lislaughill, Killhoille, 
Knockneynowle, Killinehaugh, Aghonyvart, Derene, Colash, Mul- 
lanegorhy, Aughonie, Clough, Tonnguevataugh, Garwirre, G art- 
grease, Boltibreane, Barragh,Cormadunske,Tullyveagh, Mureherne, 
Augherane,Cornogoreglaugh, Derrynenene, Cragli , Ballyreogk,~Kexi- 
nere, Cashell, Laughill, Kedauagh, Cooleokelly, Altnedeaghsrough, 
Creagh,Nelaughtlaugh, Loughanaskeaghan, CorraghoKeelagh, Tol- 
laghnawhaughe, Tonaugh, Cormaugh, Cargennouroke, Tonaghwee, 

* Quingema of Easter, 1681. Fine between James Corry and Arthur Champion 
jun., of Cork. Consideration, £150. 

f James was the son and heir of John Corry. % See note, page 95. 



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Coraghwellhussie, Comenewre, Mullenmoore, Lassan, Lesson, 
Greagh, Messaugh, Cavennoghlogh, Derryleeke, Knockrenne, 
Dereeknowkerran, Boylagh, Cunnevooder, Mullaghneane, Mag- 
wire, Tonagheloye, Greaghmooneagh, Agharinagh, Agharinaugh, 
Drumrene, Cullcarke, Oloschappill, and Laughteaville with the 
appurtenances in barony of Tirkenneda in the county of 
Fermanagh aforesaid, and also of two messuages or tenements 
commonly called Burgess tenements, in the town of Enniskillen, 
with ye appurtenanees, lately in the possession of Garrett Wiggins 
and John Oheslin, and of two acres of land, called Burgess acres, 
lately in the possession of Patrick Stanley, in the town of Ennis- 
killen aforesaid. Also a court leet and court baron, view of frank 
pledge, and all things which appertain to view of frank pledge, 
strays and escheats, free warren, escheats of chattells, of felons, 
deserters, fugitives, outlaws, and also all whatsoever rights, juris- 
dictions, privileges and franchises, to the same Arthur Campion, 
and his heirs, as of the manor aforesaid, belonging or appertaining, 
in the county of Fermanagh aforesaid, whereof by their free agree- 
ments it was agreed between them in the same court, to wit, that 
the aforesaid Arthur Champion acknowledged the manor, castle, 
and tenements aforesaid, with the appurtenances, to be the right 
of the said James, as the things which same James hath of gift of 
the aforesaid Arthur, and to him has remitted and quit claimed 
for self and his heirs to aforesaid James, and his heirs for ever, 
and furthermore, the same Arthur hath granted for self and his 
heirs, that he will warrant, (guarantee) the manor, castle, and tene- 
ments aforesaid, with the appurtenances to the aforesaid James, 
and his heirs for ever, and for the recognizance, remission, quit, 
claim, warranty, fine and agreement, the same James hath given to 
ye aforesaid Arthur, one hundred and fifty pounds sterling. 

(1681) Arthur Champion's Deed of Release is dated 3rd 
May, 1 681. But Charles the Second's Patent to John Corry is 
dated 2 1st July, 1669, twelve years previously, when John 
Corry had sued out a new patent for the manor of Castlecoole. 
The explanation of these repeated patents is this, as Dean 
Reeves informs me : " Under the terms of the Plantation 
no owner was able to make an unexceptionable conveyance to 
another unless he had licence from the Crown. I find in 
the Calendar of the Patents of Jac. I., and in the inquisitions 
pardons of alienations made Licentia Regis non prius obtenta. 
And it was necessary to obtain a pardon in legal form to 
supply this defect in title." This patent does not appear to 
have been conclusive against Arthur Champion's claim. 

The following is an abstract of the Patent referred to, from 
Charles II. to John Curry, 21st July, 1669. This was no doubt 
sued out by him in order to make him more secure in his manor 
of Castlecoole, than he would have been as an assignee. 

In it Charles the Second recites that his father by Letters 
Patent, dated 28 June An. regni 15th (1639), for the considera- 



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tion therein mentioned, had granted to Roger Atkinson, of Coole, 
esq., the manor of Coole, &c, &c, " and whereas the estate and 
interest in the same came into the quiet possession of John Curry 
who has prayed of us to grant him, his heirs and assigns, Letters 
Patent of the same, know that we, &c., by the advice and consent 
of Thomas Earl of Ossory, our Deputy General of Ireland, and 
according to the tenor of our letters, dated at Whitehall, 17 May, 
1667, have granted, &c, to said John Curry, <fcc, the entire manor 
of Coole, &c, and the towns, townlands, hamlets, lands, parts, 
parcells, or half-quarter lands, &c, of Ballydrombochas, Kissallagh, 
Glassmullagh, Moyettethomas, Lessedrombrosk, Knocknevernogg, 
Keadagh, Rossmoland, Lecill, Gortmullocke, Kedagh, Tulloharde, 
Killigrane, Dromcrowe, Killybarr, Tullyharne, Killinan, Killree, 
Killinon, Killmadday, Carrickdromrelagh, Killmaceaden, Carrow- 
maemew. Cunony, Cleaghwolly, Dolagh, Mullaghmore, Shanolagh, 
Lislaughill, Killy willy, Knocknenowle, Killinehaugh, Aghom- 
varte, Derrene, Colash, Mullenygorhye, Aughonyclogh, Tonangue, 
Vataugh, Garroirre, Gartgrease, Boltibreane, Barragh, Carmodi- 
luske, Tullyneagh, Murhery, Augherane, Cornegoreglaugh, Dree- 
nene, Cragh, Ballyreogh, Kennery, Cashell, Laughill, Keadaugh, 
Cooleokelly, Alltnedeaghscrough, Creagh, Nelaughtaugh Laughan- 
askeaghan, Coroghokeelaugh, Tollaghnewhaugh, Tonaugh, Gor- 
maugh, Cargenomrocke, Tonaghwee, Coraghwellhussie, Comenure 
Mullenmoore, Lasson, Lesson, Greaghmassagh, Cavaneglough, 
Deryleeke, Knockneeme, Derree, Knockekerin, Boylagh, Cam- 
wooder, Mullaghmeane, Magwire, Tonogneloye, Greaghmooneagh, 
Augharynagh, Agharynagh, Drumrene, Culcarcke, Closcapil, and 
Laught Eavill ; all in barony of Coole Terkeneda, with all their 
appurtenances, &c. The rent is £16 6s. 9d. The manor is called 
Castleatkinson. 

It is dated at Dublin 21 July, an. 21 Cor. 2d. 

It renews all the grants of courts, <fec, in the preceding patent, 
and repeats the indemnity clause. 

Dean Reeves, who made the above abstract for me, 
adds: 

This Patent of Charles II. contains the most correct recital of 
the denominations and sub-denominations of the lands of the 
manor. 

You have six documents, at least, which recite these names, 
namely : — 

1. Patent of Charles I., 28 July, 1639. 

2. Roger Atkinson's deed to A. Champion, 22 April, 1640. 

3. Charles I. Licence of Alienation, 2 May, 1640. 

4. Roger Atkinson's Fine to Champion, June, 1640. 

5. Henry Gilbert's Deed to Jno Oorry, May 8, 1657. 

6. Patent of Charles II. to Jno Curry, 21 July, 1669. 

7. A. Champion, jun., Fine to James Corry, May, 1681. 

The Plantation Patent recited only the larger denominations, 
because in 1611 the Government had not accurately ascertained 
the minute subdivisions, and the grants were all constructed on a 



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large and partly guess work scale. But when the Undertakers 
settled down on the lands, they acquired from the natives a full 
knowledge of all the local names, which they from time to time 
noted down and inserted in their own old Plantation list, placing 
the subdenominations under their proper heads respectively. 

A nd thus it happens that some names occur twice over, and 
somewhat differently spelled, as in the case of Keady, Lissan and 
Agharainy, Tullyharve and Tullyharne. 

All the rentals observe the same order, under the Plantation 
heads, and in their order. 

The following information has been supplied to me also 
by the Dean : — 

This patent of Car. II. was granted under the provisions of 
the Acts of Settlement and Explanation, and in the third volume 
of the Irish Record Commissioners' Reports of 1824, page 196, B, 
there is an abstract of the contents of the patent, 21 July, An. 21. 
Enrolled 10 August, 1669. 

It commences thus, " John Curry of Castlecoole. The manor 
of Coole, and ye castle or capital house of Coole, and the quarters 
and half-quarters of Bally drombrochus, Killsallagh or Killsalogh, 
Glasmullagh or Glassimollagh, &c." 

These aliases which abound in it, are, I am persuaded, the result 
of uncertainty on the part of the transcriber. It ends thus : — 

" Note. These premises had been granted by King Charles I. 
to Roger Atkinson of Coole, esq., by Patent, dated 28th June, 
15th of his reign, and became ye estate of Mr. Curry, by divers 
conveyances from the said Atkinson, and was confirmed to him 
and his heirs by this patent at his request. By this patent the 
premises were erected into a manor, by the name of Castle 
Atkinson, with courts leet and baron and other privileges." 

This is not a very exact note. But prior to this I find in the 
same Report that there was a Patent under the same Acts, bearing 
date 28th 19th Car. IT. (1667), John Curry, esq., Roynally, Corna- 
muckelly, Arvegarace, and Cavelly, Lurgan, Clabey, Moyshnoght, 
Dromconbeagh, and Brockagh, 420 acres plantation measure 
(680a. Ir. 13p.) statute measure. Rent £5 13s. 5d. Barony 
Teerekennedy. 

Also in county Monaghan. Lerragh, Tullenewabrowne, Corne- 
careey, in barony of Creeremorne (Cremorne), 230 acres plantation 
measure (373a. 2r. 10p.) statute measure. Rent <£3 2s. Id. 

Also in same enrolment to Henry West, gent., in Toppid 
Mountain 111 acres, in Drymeny and Camgart, 30 acres, in 
Movsnaught 32 acres, in Toppid Mountain 8 acres. Ibid., p. 
172a. 

The ones granted to John Corry are Ramaley, Lurganclabby, 
Moysnaght, Dumcor, Beagli, Brockagh, and three others I can't 
verify.* 

Of the above lands for which a patent was granted in 
1667, the first were what was known as the Clabby Estate : 

* That is with the denominations on the present Ordnance Map. 



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how obtained I do not know. The second patent was for 
the Monaghan property : I am equally in ignorance con- 
cerning it. . Mr. West's patent was for lands which, as will 
be shown presently, he sold in the next year to James the 
son of John Corry, together with a tate called Knockaberrett, 
(as well as 36 acres in the barony of Cremorne, county of 
Monaghan). The Fermanagh portion seems to have been 
an addition to the Clabby Estate. 

In Mr. Armar's catalogue under the head of leases, it ap- 
pears that Mr. Corry received : — 

(1). A deed of fee-farm of Wingate's tenement (I pre- 
sume in Monaghan) from Lord Blayney. 

(5). A deed of fee-farm from William Balfour of Innis- 
league ; rent £6 per annum. This is an island in Lough 
Erne near Belleisle, the seat of the late Rev. J. G. Porter, 
who purchased it in the Encumbered Estates Court in 
1851. 

(2). Also there was a lease from Henry Lord Blaney to 
his (John's) son James Corry, of several lands and tenements 
in and about Monaghan dated 1680 for 61 years at £60 per 
annum, besides the King's rent, £12. 

(3). A confirmation of several leases from Lord Blaney by 
Adam Loftus and William Ussher. 

(4). A release from Wyat to Sturgeon of lands in the 
county of Monaghan. 

(6). A lease of Innisturke from Christopher Balfour to 
Ja : Corry for 61 years, from May, 16S0. Rent £'21 6s. Sc7. 

(7). A lease of Tattyvoye from Balfour to Corry for fifty- 
seven years from May, 1684. Rent £4 per annum. 

Any further transactions in which John Cony was con- 
cerned will be noticed in the next chapter. His son James 
appears to me to have been a more prominent actor 
in the history of the estate than his father, and the account 
which I now proceed to give of him will commence long 
before his father's death. 1 cannot find the exact date of 
John Corry 's death. His signature appears for the last 
time to a deed in 1681. 1 have an old silver tankard with 
the English hall mark 1681, which I believe to be the one 
bequeathed by his great-granddaughter, Sarah Lowry Corry, 
in 1779, to her grandson, Somerset, who was my grand- 
father, and which she says had belonged to her great grand- 
father. I think it probable that John Corry died in or 
about 1681, and from a remark in his son James's will, that 
he was buried in Derryvullen churchyard, in which parish 
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CHAPTER X. 

JAMES COREY, 1681-1688. 

James Corry's marriage with Sarah Anketill — His family— His wife's 
early death — His purchases of land — Deed of settlement of 1679 
between his father and himself — His purchase of John Rampayne's 
interest in the fee-farm of Agharenagh — Further purchases of land — 
Proposed second marriage with Miss Lucia Mervyn. 

There is no record of the date of the birth of James Corry. 
A book called " The Lords Entries," now in the custody of 
Sir Bernard Burke, and to which each newly created Irish 
peer was required by the Irish House of Lords to furnish 
his pedigree, states that he came to Ireland from Scotland in 
1649, and that he was a barrister-at-law ; also that his wife 

was Elizabeth, daughter and co-heiress of Johnstone, 

esq. This is evidently a mere confusion, made by my great 
grandfather the first Lord Belmore, between James Corry's 
wife and mother. Nor does there appear to have been 
any barrister of the name at that time. 

I do not know whether he had any brothers or sisters ; 
but it is mentioned in a document hereafter referred to, 
that some of his relations were killed at the time of the 
He volution. There appear to have been several persons of 
the name of Corry settled in or near Enniskillen, all of 
whose families have now died out. The last — the only one 
that I knew — was " Captain " William Corry, j.p., formerly 
Adjutant of the Fermanagh Militia, and Local Inspector of 
the Fermanagh Gaol, who died in 1862 ; and who had, I 
believe, served during the Peninsular War in the 27th 
Inniskillings. 

James Corry married in 1663 Sarah, daughter of Oliver 
Anketill, of Anketill Grove, county Monaghan. One of 
that family informed me, not very long ago, that she had 
certain townlands for her portion, and asked me if I still 
possessed them. They were situate in the barony of Tir- 
kennedy, between Castlecoole and the barony of Maghera- 
stephena, in the neighbourhood of the road between Tempo 
and Lisbellaw ; and had been sold in the Encumbered Estates 
Court in 1851. 

Of this marriage there were three children ; viz., a son 
John, born in 1666 ; and two daughters ; viz., Rebecca, 
married in 1698 to James Moutray, esq., the ancestor of 
the present Mr. Moutray, of Favor Royal, county Tyrone ; 
and Elizabeth, married in 1704 to James Auchinleck, esq., 
who subsequently lived at Thomastown close to Castlecoole. 



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Mrs. James Corry appears to have died in the lifetime of 
her father-in-law. 

In the year 1662 (26th August), the year before James 
Corry 's marriage, his father made him a lease, for a rent 
reserved and certain other considerations, of two tates of 
Carrowmacmea, being part of the manor of Castlecoole, and 
then in his possession, with all houses, &c, thereon, for 99 
years from 1st May last, at a yearly rent of £4, to be paid 
in two half-yearly instalments at the feast of All Saints 
and the feast of " St. Philip and Jacob." He was to keep 
the buildings in proper repair, and not to assign his interest 
without first offering it to John Corry or his heirs, and that 
they should refuse to give as much as any indifferent per- 
son would (" re vera "). James Corry and his heirs were to 
do suit and service at the courts leet and courts baron to 
be held in and for the manor of Coole ; to grind their corn 
at the manor mills ; and to give attendance and be ready to 
serve at every assizes and sessions to be holden for the 
county of Fermanagh, " in the same form and manner 
as a freeholder." This looks rather as if James had only 
lately come of age, and that one of the objects in view was 
to give him a vote for the county. 

From an estate map made in 1723 I know that this house, 
(whether built or to be built at the date of the lease,) stood 
on a part of Castlecoole demesne called the " White hill." 
There are still some traces of foundations, and what looks like 
the site of an orchard, &c, at a spot on that hill, close by the 
present shepherd's cottage and the "Bullock yard." There 
are also some old ash trees which appear to have been planted 
on the banks running from the end and back of the house. 
The stump of one of these, which was blown down not long 
aoro, was more like touchwood than timber, although a single 
small branch had been in leaf the previous summer. This 
house was marked on the map of 1723 as " Mr. Corry's 
house." It was, I think, approached by an old road from 
the public road in Ballylucas leading to Tyrone, part of 
which can be traced in a field now called the " Horse-parks," 
and part of which ran, I believe, behind the Whitehill, where 
is now the thorn fence separating it from a field called " The 
Redmeadow." I believe this house was in the beginning 
of the next century in the occupation of Mr. Crawford, a 
merchant, of Enniskillen. 

In 1666 James Corry received a commission signed by 
the Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, appoint- 
ing him Captain of a company of foot raised or to be raised 
in the county of Fermanagh. In this document, dated 11th 



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of July, his name is spelt with a u " Curry." In one of the 
deeds before referred to the name Corry was spelt " Corrie." 
In the same year Captain James Corry purchased from 
William Crawford, of the county and city of Dublin, for 
£21* all his interest in a debenture or debentures due to his 
father, Quarter-Master William Crawford, deceased, for his 
services in Ireland done to his Majesty before the year 1649. 
In 1667 he received from King Charles II. a patent of 
certain lands in Fermanagh and Monaghan. I take this 
information from Mr. Armar's list. I think it can only have 
been a patent in confirmation of previous ones, in case any 
non-alienation condition had been broken. Probably the 
one relating to Fermanagh is referred to in an abstract of a 
patent of 1669, which will be found a little further on. 

James Corry seems, whatever may have been the source 
from which he derived it, to have had money to invest. We 
have before seen that in 1665 he expended £200, and in 
1681 again, £150, in compromising with claimants to his 
father's estate. He appears when land came into the mar- 
ket, to have purchased it freely. 

In 1668 he purchased for £100, from Henry West, of 
Ogher (Augher), county Tyrone, gentleman, four tates of 
Mullaghknock, two tates of Camgart and Drimney, and one 
tate called Knockaberett, situate in the Barony of Tir- 
kennedy, and proportion of Clabby. I think Knockaberett 
could only have been a sub-denomination, as it does not 
appear in the oldest rental. He also bought thirty -six acres 
in the barony of Cremorne, county Monaghan. Jane, the 
wife of Henry West, confirmed this by an indorsement 
signed with " his " meaning " her " mark. 

Mullaghknock (the hill on the hill) now called Toppid 
Mountain, which was sold in the Incumbered Estates Court 
in 1851, is a prominent mountain, 909 feet above the sea 
level, with a cairn on the top of it, which has I believe 
never been explored, but probably marks the grave of a 
chieftain. It includes the townland of Glasdrummond. An 
extensive view can be obtained in every direction from the 
top of this mountain. The easiest way to ascend it, is from 
the very old hilly road which formerly led from the Dublin 
road to Tempo, to the east of Castlecoole. The present and 
the intermediate roads to Tempo both passed on the other side 
of the mountain. There is a certain amount of reclaimed 
land on its sides. I have heard that part of it was formerly 
held under 7 my grandfather by a tenant who used to locate 
cottier sub-tenants on it for a time, and when they had re- 
claimed some pieces, move them on, promising that they 

* I am not quite certain as to this amount being correct. 

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should get blankets from my grandmother. I do not think 
however that the reclamation has come to much. 

Clabby is a village on an estate which my grandfather 
sold about forty-two years ago, together with other property 
in Fermanagh and Longford, to the late Rev. J. G. Porter. 
But it seems to have given the name to a considerable dis- 
trict or " proportion " of country. 

On the 4th June in the same year James Corry purchased 
from John Prestot of Deribord, county Fermanagh, two 
small tates called Drumderg in the proportion of Clabby and 
barony of Tirkennedy, and also any interest he might have 
had in property in the barony of Cremorne, county 
Monaghan. The purchase-money was £40. 

In 1668, according to Mr. Armar's catalogue, Edward 
Brampton and his wife conveyed to James Corry, and in 1672 
he also bought from Robert Armstrong and Mary his wife 
their interest in fifty-five acres in Drumcramp and in Droles, 
in the barony of Magherastephana, and county of Fermanagh, 
and sixty-eight acres in Aghnasera, and ten acres in Lime- 
geagh, both in the county of Monaghan. Droles is part of 
what was called the Loughside Estate, or Horsemen's Lands. 
They were said to have been granted to Cromwellian 
soldiers in satisfaction of arrears of pay. The possession of 
this estate, of which this purchase was only a part, but 
which is shown at large on my Manor Map of 1723, no 
doubt gave rise to the tradition that either James Corry or 
his father had been an officer under Cromwell, a tradition 
which is certainly unproved. 

On the 3rd May, 1670, Robert Armstrong assigned to 
James Corry his interest in a lease (dated the 1st May), 
for twenty years, of Lislerant and Listein, in the barony of 
Magherastephana, at a yearly rent of £15. This lease had 
been granted to Robert Armstrong, who is described as of 
Drumcrainy, in the barony of Magherastephana, The lease 
had been granted by Thomas Wyatt, of the town of 
Monaghan, to Armstrong. 

On the 5th August, 1670, Francis Johnston of Ganban, 
Alexander Johnston of Mullaghsilligagh, and Hugh, eldest 
son of Francis, conveyed Drumbrean, in the barony of 
Tirkennedy, to James Corry, for £25. Drumbrean was in 
Clabby, and was sold free of quit rent. 

On the 19th July, 1673, on the other hand, James Cony 
granted Walter and Alex. Johnston, a lease of Mullagh- 
silligagh, &c, for fifty-five years, at £6 10s. a year. 

On the 7th July, 1684, John Smith, of Port Lenenagh, 
county Cavan, and Eleanor his wife, granted to James 
Corry, a lease for a year of Drumack, and of sixteen acres 



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in Finrah. I do not seem to have the release," which 
would have concluded the transaction, and would have 
shown the amount of the purchase money. 

On 28th February, 1673, Captain Corry took a lease for 
a year from Edward Currie, of the city of Dublin, tailor, 
son and heir of Robert Currie, gentleman, deceased, of " all 
those parcels of land hereafter mentioned, being granted 
unto the said Edward Currie for his said father's services, 
and others by him purchased, that is to say, 2 acres 3 roods 
and 4 perches in Knowla als Gowla, 70 acres in Derry- 
harney, 14 acres and 3 roods in Mullaghkippin, 61 acres in 
Aghamore, and 17 acres and 10 perches in Derrykellaghan, 
all profitable land, plantation measure .... in the 
barony of Magherastephana, &c." 

This was afterwards confirmed by a release, and further 
confirmed by Jane, the mother of Edward Currie. 

Gowla, now called Gola, is a townland in Derrybrusk 
parish, where once stood an abbey, which will be noticed 
later.* 

Derryharney is a townland on the road to Mr. Porter's 
demesne of Belleisle, on which now stands the parish church 
of Derrybrusk. 

On the 8th August, 1674, his brother-in-law, Matthew 
Ancketill, of Ancketill Grove, county Monaghan, granted to 
James Corry a lease for a year of the 4 small tates or quarter- 
land called Tiralton, 2 small tates called Drumderge and 
Modena, 2 small tates called Tullinenan and Correagh and 
Corkelly, and that part of the tate or quarter-land of Falls, 
in the possession of Patrick Kelly. This was afterwards 
confirmed by a release, and a bill of sale from Patrick Kelly 
for his 26 acres accompanied it.t 

In 1688 Bryan O'Brin had conveyed to James Corry his 
interest in 4 small tates in Tyralton. All of these lands are 
situate in the barony of Tirkennedy. Tyralton was pur- 
chased in the Incumbered Estates Court in 1851 by the late 
Rev. J. G. Porter. It is a sort of half mountain townland 
lying between Toppid Mountain and the road from it to Lis- 
bellaw. Drumderg is a townland lying off the public road 
leading from Lisbellaw to Tempo. It was purchased in 
1851 by Mr. Hurst. Modena, which adjoins it, was pur- 
chased in 185 1 by Maurice Maude, esq. I am not acquainted 
with the other denominations. Most of these purchases must 
have been made in the lifetime of James' father, for on the 
19th April, 1679, John Corry made a deed of settlement, of 

* Vide App. T. 

1 1 cannot find any release of these lands, but should they have constituted 
Miss Ancketili's marriage portion, the consideration would have been a merely 
nominal sum. 



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which, as it throws a good deal of light on various matters, 
I proceed to give a lengthened abstract. 

This deed is dated 19th April, 1 679, and is between John 
Corry and Jas. Somerwell, of Tullyhelter, and John Leslie, 
of Tullyclea, county Fermanagh, d.d. (Dr. Leslie was Rector 
and Vicar of Derryvullen, having been appointed in 1662, 
upon the presentation of Trinity College. He appears to 
have held the living until 1701). The settlement recites 
that by an agreement between Oliver Anketill, of Anketill 
Grove, county Monaghan, deceased, and John Corry, dated 
23rd February, 1663-4, upon the intermarriage of James, 
son and heir apparent to John Corry, to and with Sarah, 
late wife of James Corry, and daughter of Oliver Anketill, 
there were several provisions and settlements to be made 
which were not executed in the lifetime of Oliver and Sarah 
as was intended, and that whereas there was a certain pro- 
vision made and intended for James, during such time as he 
should dwell in John's house, and after he should leave the 
house and dwell by himself it was agreed that John should 
settle on James one moiety of all his lands, except of the 
proportion or manor of Castlecoole, of which James was to 
have only sixteen tates, viz., 4 tates of Carrowmacmea, 4 
tates of Garvary, 4 tates of Killyvilly, and 4 tates of 
Agherenagh ; and that John should have the other part of 
the said manor, and the moiety of all his other lands during 
his natural life, and that after his death all the estates 
should descend to and be entailed on James and his heirs, 
as also his personal effects. And particularly there was in- 
tended to be assigned to James one half of a lease of the 
ballybetagh of Ballyclanara, in county Monaghan, together 
with several houses and gardens in the town of Monaghan, 
in the lease contained ; and whereas such conveyances were 
never executed pursuant to such articles of agreement, and 
that James had issue of the said Sarah, John Cony, now his 
heir apparent, therefore to avoid all trouble, and for better 
settling and establishing James Corry and John Corry the 
younger, in the said estates, Szc, and also in consideration 
of the love and affection which John had and bore to James, 
and to John, son to James, and in confirmation of the said 
articles of intermarriage, and further declaration of his in- 
tent, he (John) granted to the trustees all the said manor of 
Castlecoole, otherwise Castle Atkinson, situate in the barony 
of Tirkennedy and county of Fermanagh, and " that and 
those the several quarters and tates hereafter named, viz., 
the quarter of Agharenagh and Drumrenagh, containing 
four .small tates/' the quarters of Killyvilly, of Garvary, of 
Carrowmacmea, of Lissan, of Ballyreagh, and of Castle- 



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coole, each containing four small tates, the four small 
tates or quarters of Mullaghmacthomas, Kilnamaddy, 
and Killyreagh, the three small tates of Tullyharne, 
the two small tates of Killynan, the small tate of 
Rossyvoland, the small tate of Glasmullagh, the small 
tate of Kilsallagh, and the small tate of Killygrania, 
together with all rents payable thereout, and all " honnours, 
priviledges, jurisdictions, courts leete, courts baron, view of 
frankpledge, and all that to view of frankpledge belongeth, 
and all fines, markets, services, customs, tolls, mills, waters 
watercourses, fishings, warrens, weares, and all orchards, 
gardens, lands, meadows, pastures, feedings, commons, heaths, 
firze, moors, marshes, mountains, woods, underwoods, mines, 
minerals, quarries, and other royalties, priviledges, and im- 
munities and advantages whatsoever," belonging to the lands, 
andalsoallthe several houses hereafter named, viz., one dwell- 
ing house with a backside garden and appurtenances, in the 
town of Enniskillen, then in the tenancy of Lawrence (?) 
Dupborygerd, and also one other dwelling house in the said 
town, with the garden backside, and appurtenances thereto 
belonging, then in the tenancy and possession of Edward 
Dickson, sadler, and also two burgess acres adjoining the 
town, then in the tenancy of Robert Mat erne ; and also 
the tates and parcels of land hereafter named, viz., the four 
small tates of Ramally and Cornamuck, the three small 
tates of Moysnaght, the two small tates of Clabby, and the 
two small tates of Drumcorr, the two small tates of Brackagh, 
and the small tate of Beagh, part of the proportion of 
Clabby, " in the barony of Coole and Tirkennedy, county 
Fermanagh," and also 400 acres of land in the three tates 
of Laragh, Cornecarge, and Tullenemalbrow, in the barony 
of Cremome, county Monaghan. All the foregoing are 
granted to the trustees, or the survivor of them for ever, 
to the several uses thereafter limited and to no other, 
subject nevertheless to the provisions thereafter expressed, 
that is to say, to have and to hold the quarter-land of 
Agherenagh, &c, being parcel of the said manor, which by 
the said articles were set out to the said James upon his 
marriage, and had been by him enjoyed since, to the only 
use and behoofe of the said James Corry during his natural 
life, without impeachment of waste, and to hold all the 
residue of the said manors, &c, to the use of John Corry 
during his natural life, and after his death to the use of 
James (similarly), and after both their deaths to the use of 
John the younger, son and heir of James by Sarah his late 
wife, and after his death, of his heirs male, and for want of 
such heirs, to the heirs male of James, and for want of such, 
to the right heirs of John of ever. 



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This settlement was not nevertheless to weaken or make 
void a deed dated November, 1674, made by John to James, 
whereby was granted by John to James the quarter-land of 
Castlecoole, containing four small tates, namely, the Coney- 
berrys and Kedagh; he yielding or paying thereout the 
king's rent of the whole manor or proportion of Castlecoole. 
To have and to hold also the proportion of Clabby, the 
houses in Enniskillen, the burgess acres of land, and the 
400 acres of land, in the county Monaghan tates, in the 
manner before mentioned. And whereas John Corry was 
entitled to the ballybetagh of land called Ballyclanara, in 
county Monaghan, and to several houses, tenements and 
gardens in the county Monaghan, by virtue of a lease of 
sixty-one years or thereabouts, made to him by Richard 
JBlaney, esq., since Lord Baron of Monaghan, deceased, at 
the yearly rent of about £72 ; and it was intended that the 
same, &c, should be to the same uses as the lands of in- 
heritance thereinbefore granted were to be limited, or as 
near as could be secured by Councill, to go and be limited ; 
therefore he (John) granted the said ballybetagh to 
Somervell and Leslie, to permit him to enjoy one moiety, 
and James the other, for their joint lives, and after John's 
death it was to go as the other lands until the expiration 
of the lease. Nevertheless, should John Corry desire to 
marry again, he should be at liberty to settle on a wife for 
her life, in lieu of jointure, dower, or thirds, the two 
small tates of Mullaghmacthomas, the like of Killinan and 
the like of Brackagh, such settlement being duly executed 
before his intermarriage; and if James should desire to 
marry again, he might settle as jointure any part of the 
premises, not exceeding one-third, but this third was not to 
include the lands liable to be settled upon any wife of 
John, nor John's moiety of the manor during his life. 

It was provided that after the deaths of John and James, 
and as soon as the premises should have come to John the 
younger, or to any son of John the elder, or of James, to 
whom the premises may have been limited or intended to 
be limited; then it should be lawful for such son, on marriage 
with a woman being his tl equivalent or equal in birth or 
fortune," to settle a part of the premises, not exceeding one- 
third, on her as jointure; and power was given to James 
and to John the younger, and to every other son who 
might inherit, to charge the estate for their younger 
sons or daughters, with a patrimony not exceeding £1,000, 
provided it be done with any colour, collusion or otherwise. 

James and John the younger might grant leases for forty- 
one years or three lives, for a full rent, and without taking 
any fine. 



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John the elder and James might jointly make void or 
vary the settlement. 

John covenanted with the trustees, that he would not 
either give or will away his personal estate, leases, goods, or 
chattels, to a greater extent than £50 sterling, nor in any 
way hinder James or his heirs from enjoying the same, it 
being his intent to give all his goods (except as aforesaid) 
to James. 

This document was signed in a firm bold hand JJohn 
Corry, and was witnessed by Robert King, David Johnston, 
James Somervill, and Alexander Johnston. 

This deed is interesting both as regards the family history 
and in a philological point of view. 

At the time of its execution, John Corry 's wife was not only 
evidently dead, but probably was so in 1663, at the time of 
James' marriage with Miss Ancketill. For not only was it 
in contemplation that James should for a time continue to 
reside at Castlecoole, perhaps until a house could be built or 
completed for him in Carrowmacmea ; but there is no allu- 
sion in the recital of the articles of agreement, to any pro- 
vision having been made for her by way of dower. It is 
rather singular that in allowing a provision to be made 
thereafter for younger children, no allusion is made to 
James' two daughters, who must have been the children of 
his first wife.* It does not appear why the execution of this 
settlement was delayed for so many years. Possibly the 
dispute with Pembridge in 1665 might have been the ori- 
ginal cause. The litigation with Arthur Champion, jun., 
was pending when the settlement was at last executed. The 
whole tone of the document shows the leading part which 
James always seems to have liked to take in affairs during 
his long life, and in the condition that his minor son was to 
marry a wife of " equivalent birth and fortune," we have 
the first trace of the anxiety which he and that son after- 
wards seem to have displayed for the worldly well-being of 
their children. 

I cannot trace the source from which John acquired the 
lands near Clabby, or (except the lease of Ballyclanara,) his 
property in county Monaghan. His patents from King 
Charles, II., in confirmation of them have been already 
noticed. Both of these estates were sold privately, and the 
title deeds probably handed over to the purchasers. Clabby, 
as I have before mentioned, was sold in 1839 to the Rev. J. G. 
Porter ; but the Monaghan property, except one small head 
rent arising out of the town of Monaghan, which I still 

*It would seem however, from a provision in a document further on, dated 30th 
May, 1713, that this was rather supposed to have been implied, vide page 159. 



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possess, was sold previously. I took the trouble a good 
many years ago to have a search made in the Record Office 
in Dublin against Cornecarye or Cornecarrow, and found 
that it had been sold by the first Lord Belmore in 1795. 

As regards the names of places, a modification now ap- 
pears. The barony in which the manor of Coole is situate 
is in the earlier recital described as "Tirkennedy" only, 
" Tircanada " was the original spelling. Later in the docu- 
ment the barony is again mentioned as " Coole and Tirken- 
nedy," but probably even then the word " Coole " as applied 
to this barony was becoming obsolete. But in the local 
names a considerable change appears. Agherinagh and 
Drumrenagh appear as a quarter land, and as they did in 
Zackary Rampayne's lease — Drumrenagh did not appear in 
the patents — ; Castlecoole takes the place of Kedagh as a 
quarter-land. It is said to contain four small tates, but "the 
Coneyberrys " are substituted for "Lecill and Gortmullocke." 
There is now only one hill called Coneyburrow. The other 
is known as the Rookery Hill, or the " Filbert " Hill. The 
small tate of Rossyvullan is given afterwards as a separate 
tate. In the patents it was Rosmoland, one of the tates of 
Kedagh. 

Baflydrombrocas as the name of a quarter-land disappears. 
One of its two subdenominations Mollyettethomas (now 
Thomastown), has grown into Mullaghmacthomas (Hill of 
the son of Thomas), called in the next century Mullagh 
Thomas and Thomashill. It, with Kilnamaddy and Killy- 
reagh, are incorrectly described as " the four small tates or 
quarters." 

Glasmullagh, one of the original tates of Ballydrombrocas, 
is now described by itself, as is, with topographical accuracy, 
Kilsallagh. The three small tates of Tullyharne are men- 
tioned in globo. 

As regards the two small tates of Killinan, the draftsman 
has given Kilnamaddy or Fox wood to his new quarter. The 
other comprises the townlands now called Bonnybrooke and 
Killyreagh, and it is probable that he had these two in view 
only. The subdenominations in Carrowmacmea, Lissan, 
Ballyreagh, Garvary, and Killyvilly disappear. Carrow- 
macmea has now several English subdenominations, and 
one has become a separate townland as Cloghtate. I am 
not aware of any sub-denominations now existing in the 
other four townlands, except the " Deerpark " in Killyvilly ; 
a name of the next century. 

I have a document which is not entered in Mr. Armar's 
list, but which is endorsed, " Counterpte of Deed to my 
father declaring ye use of Champyons Conveyance to me." 



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This deed is dated 26th August, 1681, and is between 
James and John Corry. The counterpart is signed by John. 

It recites the settlement of 1679, and that an action 
of trespass and ejectment had been brought in the Court 
of King's Bench by Arthur Champion, of Corke, gentle- 
man (for the manor as already mentioned); and that there 
had been suits depending thereon in the Irish Court of 
Chancery, which had been amicably settled and appeased 
by an agreement made between Arthur Champion and 
James Corry, whereby Arthur . . . had released, for the 
consideration of £150, the same to James, and did also in 
Easter term last levy and acknowledge a fine in the Court 
of Common Pleas, to the use of James and his heirs ; and it 
further recites that it was not intended by this to alter the 
settlement of 1679, but it was only to be taken as an addi- 
tional title to what James and John had before ; the inden- 
ture now witnesses that John having paid to James £100, 
being part of the £150 paid or to be paid to Champion, 
James declares that he holds the manor to the use of John 
as in the settlement provided, and that John may peacably 
enjoy the same. This is the latest document to which I 
find John Corry the elder's signature attached. 

James Corry still continued to purchase land. On the 
15th April, 1682, he obtained from Robert King, of Dublin, 
a grant of the townland of Kilsallagh, in the barony of 
Magherastephana, containing about 81 acres of profitable 
land, plantation measure. This of course is a different 
townland from Kilsallagh in Coole, and was, after his 
death, exchanged by his son J ohn with Sir Ralph Gore, for 
a townland called Largy,in Tirkennedy, adjoining and separ- 
ating Ballyreagh and Lissan, and which was sold in 1851 to 
the Rev. Henry Tottenham ; who resold it to its present 
owner, Mr. George Hust. 

The deed recites that James Corry had executed a fee- 
farm grant to King, at a reserved rent of £6 a year, of 
Aghmalenga or Aghnolow, containing 51 acres of profitable 
land, also of 3 acres in Gowla, and 14 acres in Mullagh- 
kippin, in the barony of Magherastephana. Robert King, in 
consideration of this, granted Kilsallagh to James Corry, 
undertaking to continue to pay the King's rent, and fore- 
going all claims on behalf either of himself or James King, 
or their heirs. James Corry on the other hand was to con- 
tinue to pay the quit rent of the lands which he granted in 
fee-farm. 

In the same year James Corry purchased out the interest 
of the Rampayne family, to whom Roger Atkinson had in 



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1640 made a fee-farm grant of Agherainy and Drumrenagh, 
at £J a year, as is shown also by the rental annexed to his 
deed of conveyance to Champion. On the 16th June, 1682, 
John Rampayne (who is described as of St. Margaret's, 
Westminster), son of Zachary, the original lessee, executed 
what appears to be an authograph letter of attorney which 
was witnessed by Rowland fiox and Ion : Clark, to empower 
his mother Sarah Rampayne, "Widdow," to act as his attorney 
in granting a lease of Agharainy to James Cony, for a term 
not exceeding 21 years. 

This letter, which has evidently been through the post 
office, is addressed — 

These 

ffor Mrs. Sarah Rampayne, att Ballymore Eustace, in the 
county of Dublin. 

To be left at Mr. Pearson's, next door to the Three Pigeons, in 
Thomas-street, Dublin, and sent as above. 

Ireland. 

Pt. pd. 6d. 

In a corner is written (probably later) "James Corry." 

Accordingly, on the 3rd September, 1682, a lease for a 
year was granted to James Cony, of Agherenagh and Druni- 
renagh, or by whatever other names they might be called, 
containing by estimation two great tates of land, with all 
houses and other appurtenances. This was witnessed by 
Hugh Price, John Page, Robert Craig, and Alexander 
Johnston. This was followed by a release of the lands, 
bearing date next day, in consideration of seventy pounds, 
and by a release from dower by Mrs. Sarah Rampayne. 

It will be observed that James Cony gave just seven 
years' purchase of the head-rent for this fee-farm rent. 
The land now mostly forms part of Castlecoole demesne, 
and exclusive of the turbary would let for at least £100 
a year English money, equal to £108 or £109 Irish. 

On the 6th November following (under the head of 
" Debenture Lands," in Mr. Arraars catalogue), he bought 
" certain acres in Maghrystaphina " from John Boardman. 

In * he bought from John Smith and Eleanor his 
wife, Drummack, and 16 acres in Finrah. In 1683 he 
bought from George Potter " 87 acres of profitable land, 
plantation measure, which lye scattered [thro'] Oaghil. 
Mullinascarty, Ganeoghil, 13 acres in Droles, 21 acres 2 
roods in Drumleag, 30 acres in Frenish and Cromoy, and 
also 25 acres, profitable, and 200 acres, unprofitable, in ye 
mountain pasture of ye late Lord Maguire. 

* Year uuknowii. 



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Mr. Armar says in his catalogue : — 

" N.B. — Under this niunher (3) are deeds of lease and release 
from said George and his son Abraham." 

In 1685 Nicholas Montgomery and his son Hugh, con- 
veyed to James Corry 10 acres in Gartgarran, 4 acres in 
Frenish and Cromoy, and 2 acres in Derryharney, in con- 
sideration of some other acres conveyed to them by said 
Corry. 

In * John Wamsley sold to James Corry his in- 
terest in Congo or Ceoe, Killarmor, Aghanure, Drumliff, 
Coraghy, Drummack, Aghanure, Drumliff, Aghnaskue, 
Garvoghill, Finrah, Mullaghwond, Conard, and Mullinas- 
carty. 

In Mr. Armar's list headed " Debenture Lands," by which 
term I presume he meant lands granted to certain persons 
in lieu of arrears of pay for military services, I find No. 
27:— 

" Lease from Mr. Saunders and Mr. Barry to James Corry of 
lands [of ] Slevebeagh, then under a custodian, and ye counter- 
part of a deed by which the same was granted by Corry to 
Palmer. 

"28. The original deed of the Debentures pursuant to ye Act of 
Parliament : vid Bundle ye 4th No. 21. 

"31. Deed of conveyance from Arthur Forster, of Drumgoon, 
to James Corry of 7 -J acres of Finrah, and in it enclosed a release 
from ye Forsters to said Corry for rents received out of said acres 
by said Corry, as also Potter's Warrant of Attorney. 

" Counterpart of a deed from Ja. Corry to said Arthur Forster 
for 13 acres in Droles, which were given in exchange for ye said 
7 J acres above mentioned. 

" 18. Conveyance from Robert Johnston to Ja : Corry, of Mul- 
lagh, for Mullaghsilligagh, dated 1674. 

" 19. Lease and release from Alexander Johnston to said Corry 
of ye same dated 1696. 

" 20. Deeds of conveyance of ye tate of Drumbrian from said 
Johnstons to said Corry." 

I find that Mr. Armar in his list of the Debenture Lands, 
has admitted some documents (or rather placed them in his 
second bundle) which did not properly come under this 
head. As he does not always give the dates, nor follow a 
chronological order, I have not quite succeeded in placing 
them in proper order, as I have not all the deeds at hand 
to refer to. 

I think this pretty nearly completes James Corry's 
acquisitions by purchase in Fermanagh and Monaghan, with 

* Year unknown. 



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the exception of a few acres for his deer park, which I 
shall refer to in its proper place, as I shall also to his county 
Longford purchases. 

Apart from these purchases of land, I know nothing of 
his history between the years 1681 and 1688. In the latter 
year it appears that he contemplated a marriage with Miss 
Lucia Mervyn, daughter of Henry Mervyn of Trillick, a 
member of a once very influential family, which gave a 
Speaker to the Irish House of Commons from the 8th May, 
1 6 6 1 to 3 1 st July, 1 6 6 6. * A remnant of their once extensive 
estates, is now by inheritance the Trillick (county Tyrone) 
estate of Captain Mervyn Archdale, of Castle Archdale, late 
M.P. for Fermanagh. 

A marriage settlement was prepared, referring to the 
settlement of the estate in 1679, which provided the bride 
elect with a jointure of £90 a year. But as the document 
is unsigned, and from an indorsement on it, was evidently 
used by Mr. Armar as a wrapper for one of his bundles of 
deeds; and as there is no tradition in the family of any such 
marriage, I conclude that it did not take place. 



CHAPTER XI. 

james corry — continued — 1689-90. 

Siege of Enniskillen — Burning of Castle Coole— /Two grants to Captain 
Corry — one of them, of the manor of Inseloghgease, made — but subse- 
quently cancelled — Compensation to Captain Corry for his losses 
during the war defended. 

1688 was the year of the Revolution, and in the history of 
that time the town of Enniskillen plays a conspicuous part. 
Professor Witherowin his "Deny and Enniskillen in 1688-9 " 
gives an account of" The Defence of Enniskillen " in his sixth 
chapter. From this it appears that a copy of an anonymous 
letter of warning of an intended massacre, addressed to Lord 
Mount Alexander, dated December 3rd, 1 688, (of which Pro- 
fessor Witherow had already given the text in his second 
chapter, page 26) reached Enniskillen on the 7th and created 
popular alarm. On the 11th, a Government order arrived 
from Dublin, " directing the townspeople to make arrange- 
ments for having two companies of infantry quartered in 

* During the absence of Sir Audley Mervyn in England, where he had been 
sent by the House to attend his Majesty on some business, and where he was 
detained by the king, John Temple, the solicitor-general, acted as speaker, pro 
tern. He was elected in September, 1661. 



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the to wd. This redoubled their uneasiness." The people 
were in perplexity. The native Irish in the neighbourhood 
were providing themselves with arms ; it was an unusual 
thing to have a garrison planted among them ; " and the pro- 
bability, as they believed, was, that the day for cutting their 
throats was only postponed until everything was ready, and 
till with the assistance of the soldiery, it could be done 
with greater safety and convenience." 

While the town was still in a state of uncertainty, three 
men named William Browning, Robert Clarke, and William 
MacCarmick, to whom were added James Ewart and Allen 
Cathcart, came together and resolved to refuse admittance to 
the soldiers in spite of all possible consequences. They 
knew that the Prince of Orange had been in England for 
five weeks, civil war was imminent, and they thought they 
might not only be able to protect themselves b} 7 so doing, 
but to hold the most important town between Ulster and 
Connaught in the interest of their party. 

" However plausible," continues Professor Witherow, "Such con- 
siderations, it was nevertheless a mad resolve, in the face of the 
facts ; which facts sinrply were, that arrayed against them was the 
whole power of the Irish Government, and that all the means of 
resistance that Enniskillen had, was ten pounds of powder, twenty 
firelocks and eighty men. 

" The five men, however, did resolve to do this; they sent notice 
of their determination to the surrounding country, and took every 
step they could think of, to increase their powers of resistance, and 
set carpenters to work on the drawbridge of the east bridge." 

On the 3 2th they received a letter from Daniel Eccles, 
from Clones, giving them notice that the soldiers had arrived 
at that place, distant about eighteen Irish miles. This in- 
creased the perplexity and alarm that prevailed. Captain 
Corry "and indeed most of the inhabitants, were in favour 
of admitting the soldiers"; others were for keeping them out. 
MacCarmick rode out to consult Gustavus Hamilton, Esq.,* 
a gentleman who resided five miles to the west of the town. 
On his return he was met by a messenger from Mr. Dane, 
the Provost, with the following letter : — 

" Dear Sir, — Mr. Latournall came just now from Captain Corry, 
and in his coming into the town commanded the carpenters to 
leave off working at the drawbridge, and also came to me and 
begged I should send for my brethren, and dissuade them from the 
resolution of the denying the soldiers entrance, and to provide 
them quarters as speedily as I could. My request to you is this, 
that you will immediately give the gentlemen in these parts an 
account of my design, which is to give them entrance, and that 
* Afterwards first Viscount Bovne. 



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you will make all the haste you can home to assist me, is all 
from — 

" Yours to serve you whilst I am 

" Ennisskillen, Dec, 13th, 1688. Paul Dane. 

"To Mr. William MacCarmick. These." 

Professor Witherow says : — 

" The whole subject was now debated over again. Mr. Hamilton 
gave his influence to the side of those who thought that the town 
should be defended. His policy eventually carried. The draw- 
bridge was completed, in spite of Captain Corry ; all the Roman 
Catholics residing in the place were sent away, and the Protestants 
of the surrounding country were invited to come in and assist in 
the defence." 

The Rev. Robert Kelso, Presbyterian Minister of Ennis- 
killen, took a veiy active part with MacCarmick and his 
friends, publicly and privately ; 

" Animating his hearers," says MacCarmick, " to take up arms 
and stand upon their own defence, showing example himself by 
wearing arms and marching in the head of them when together." 

On the 15th December Mr. Kelso wrote a letter, (the text 
of which Professor Witherow gives,) to Councillor Cairns at 
Deny, stating the condition of affairs, and asking him " not 
to sit still and let us sink." This he sent by Mr. Cathcart and 
Mr. MacCarmick, who also took a letter from " The Inhabi- 
tants of Enniskillen," asking for assistance and relief, "and 
especially in helping us with some powder." To this was 
added a postscript : — 

" We are not now in a position to spare men for a guard, there- 
fore must entreat your assistance in that. 

" Allan Cathcart. " William Smith. 

" William Browning. " Arch. Hamilton. 
" Tho. Shore. " Male. Cathcart. 

" Jas. Ewart. 

" Robert Clarke." 

The next day, Sunday the 1 6th, the townspeople received 
intelligence that the two companies of foot (Captain Nugent's 
and Captain Thurloe's) which belonged to Sir Thomas 
Newcom's regiment, had reached Lisbellaw, about four miles 
from Enniskillen. Most of them were engaged at Divine 
service at the time. 

They however armed themselves, and with the help sent 
in from the country, arrayed themselves, their strength not 
exceeding 200 foot and 150 horse, ill-armed and with no 
military training or experience. Neither however were, as 



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it happened, on this occasion put to the test. The discipline 
on the other side appears to have been very slack. The 
officers, not anticipating any resistance, stopped at Castle- 
coole, which was then about a mile from the town, to dine 
with Captain Corry. The soldiers meanwhile advanced to 
within sight of the town. The townsmen turned out to 
persuade them if possible to go away, and failing that to 
resist. Rumours had magnified their numbers and deter- 
mination. The soldiers, without waiting for their approach, 
turned and fled to Maguire's Bridge, about seven Irish miles 
distant from the town, whither their officers followed them ; 
and the next day they fell back on Cavan, " where they 
awaited the orders of Tyrconnel." 

On Tuesday 17th, Sir Gerald Irvine and Captain Corry, 
who were magistrates, seeing Mr. Browning riding into the 
town at the head of a party of horse, had him seized, and 
threatened to send him to gaol on the charge of bearing 
arms against the Government. The townspeople however 
interfered, with a notice to the magistrates to leave the town 
immediately, under the threat of being put in gaol them- 
selves. They accordingly had no choice but to do so. Mr. 
Gustavus Hamilton had been on the 15th elected Governor 
of the town, and the two Cath carts took command of two 
companies of foot, which were formed, consisting mostly of 
Presbyterians. 

On the 18th of the following month, January, 1688-9, 
the *Council of Five of the counties of Antrim and Down, 
appointed the Earl of Mount Alexander to be their Com- 
mander-in-Chief. Captain Thomas Cole was sent to Ennis- 
killen to ask the men of that town to unite with the North 
East Association and take their orders. By this time 
Governor Hamilton had ten companies of foot of seventy- 
two men each, and a troop of 100 horse well armed with 
carbines and pistols. This appears from the letter from 
the inhabitants of Enniskillen in reply. 

From this it also appears that the gentlemen who had at 
first opposed their action or " intention," had of late had 
several meetings, and now showed a willingness to join, pro- 
vided that Sir Gerard Irvine were made Colonel of Horse, 
with Governor Hamilton as his Lien tenant-Colonel, and 
Captain Corry as Colonel ot Foot, which it appears would 
consequentially have made him Governor of the town. 
The party in power rejected this arrangement, and elected 
Governor Hamilton to be Colonel in command, and Thomas 

* Sir Arthur Rawdon,Bart., Sir Robert Colvile, James Hamilton, of Newcastle, 
John Hawkins, and James Hamilton, of Tullamore. 

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Lloyd to be Lieutenant-Colonel. They said that Captain 
Corry " is the man in the world we most doubt, we having 
had several admonishments from very good hands that our 
fears are not groundless." Professor Witherow says that 
soon after this Captain Corry went to England. 

The names of James and John Corry, are appended to the 
address from Enniskillen to King William and Queen Mary in 
July following, after the relief of Derry ; and in this address 
the signatories say that they had proclaimed their Majesties 
on the 11th March previous. This was after the English 
convention had declared the desertion of the throne by King 
James to amount to an abdication of it.* 

It appears from the recital of a Patent of King William 
and Queen Mary, dated 29th November, 1694 (to which I 
shall refer again presently), that Captain Corry had ap- 
pointed upwards of sixty horsemen and one hundred foot, 
armed, mounted, and supplied, at his own expense, to keep 
his house at Castlecoole. The word "appointed" looks 
as if he was not personally present. These troops were 
later in the year ordered by Governor Hamilton into the 
town to take part in its defence, and Castlecoole was also 
burnt by his orders, as an outpost which was in danger of 
falling into the enemy's hands. 

Wherever Captain Corry may have gone after the rejection 
of his services by the townspeople, a rejection which was 
not unnatural (even if they had not doubted him), aftei 
they had elected their own governor, whom he would have 
displaced ; his only son John, now a man of 22 or 23, served 
their Majesties during the remainder of the war both in Ire- 
land and in Flanders, as will hereafter appear. 

I do not propose to write a history of the defence of 
Enniskillen. Accounts of this will be found in Harris' 
"Life of King William," 1749; in Professor Witherow's work, 
from which I have mainly drawn the account I have given 
above ; and in Mr. Copeland Trimble's " Enniskillen and the 
Enniskilleners." There are also other older accounts, I believe, 
from which the information given in the above works has 
been derived. 

The Enniskilleners were engaged in various expeditions 
and actions during the war, but there was only one skirmish 
in the neighbourhood of the town itself; a flying column of 
King James' army under the Duke of Berwick, advanced on 
the town on the 13th of July. Governor Hamilton, accord- 
ing to Professor Witherow, ordered two troops of horse 
under Captain Hugh Montgomer} T and Captain Francis 

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King, and about 100 foot under Lieutenant MacCormick> 
to advance to the top of Kilmacormick Hill, and there to 
engage the enemy, promising them reinforcements which 
"did not come up in time." This is probably derived 
from MacCormick's account. 

Harris, however, says that they were ordered to post 
themselves at the mill, on a very narrow point of land 
between the Race Course (or Mill) Lough and Lough 
Erne ; but that, contrary to orders, they advanced a mile 
further to meet the enemy. Professor Witherow says that 
the dragoons of the enemy dashed forward at full speed, 
but were so hotly received by MacCormick's men that they 
began to retreat. The Enniskillen horse, however, fled too ; 
whereupon the dragoons wheeled round and nearly sur- 
rounded MacCormick's men, most of whom they killed, and 
made the others prisoners. 

The town was protected by the cannon of the fort on the 
" Fort Hill," and the Duke of Berwick retired after the 
skirmish. It was at this time that Governor Hamilton 
ordered Castlecoole to be burnt, and the garrison into the 
town. On the 31st of the month, the battle of Newtown- 
butler was fought and won by the Enniskilleners under 
Colonel Wolseley, who had been sent from Deny ; and that 
part of the country was evacuated by the enemy. 

It appears from the Patent of 1694, before referred to, 
that James Corry haa stated in his petition, that his losses 
consisted in his house being burnt ; that the horse and foot 
he had armed, mounted, and supplied with ammunition, 
provision, andforage at his own charge, and appointed to keep 
his house at Castlecoole, had been commanded into Ennis- 
killen for their Majesties' service and the preservation of the 
garrison upon the enemy's approach .... that a consi- 
derable quantity of wheat, oats, malt, beef, and other pro- 
visions, and three hundred head of oxen and cows, were 
made use of for subsisting the garrison ; also, a considerable 
quantity of timber and boards, and several boats belonging 
to him, to fortify and bring timber to the place, " in all to 
the value of three thousand pounds sterling and upwards, as 
by a certificate under the hands of most of the chief officers 
of that garrison then living might appear." It continues, 
"that the Petitioner" (had stated that he) "has always been 
well affected to us and our Government, and at his own charge 
raised and armed a troop of horse and a company of foot which 
continued in our service, and that he had not in three years' 
time, received one penny out of his estate of one thousand 
pounds per annum, by reason of his nearness to the said 
garrison, and converting the profits thereof to furnish our 

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army with forage and provisions." That he had with great 
difficulty supported himself and his family in England, hav- 
ing no house to receive them in Ireland or wherewithal to 
build them another, and that he prayed for reparation. 

This petition was on 16th December, 1691, referred to 
the Lords Justices, who examined witnesses on oath and re- 
ported in July, 1692, that Captain Corry had raised the troops 
as alleged, posted them at his house at Castlecoole, and sup- 
ported them for several months, until the Governor of Ennis- 
killen, by advice of a council of officers, upon the approach 
of the Duke 'of Berwick with his army, commanded the said 
troop and company to leave the house, and march to Ennis- 
killen ; and upon the Duke of Berwick's nearer approach, 
and intelligence that he intended to post himsell in the 
petitioner's house, " the said Governor, by the advice of his 
council of officers, ordered the said house and all the other 
houses in the town of Castlecoole to be forthwith burnt, 
which was accordingly done, and by that means the enemy's 
so near approach to Enniskillen was prevented, which in 
all probability was the preservation of that place ; that 
the said garrison was from time to time supplied with 
Beeves and other provisions of the Petitioners of a consi- 
derable value, without which they could not have subsisted ;" 
" that his total loss could not have been less than three 
thousand pounds, his house being one of the best in that 
countiy," and that the petitioner had produced a certificate 
from several of the chief officers of the garrison and other 
persons of good repute and quality, in confirmation of what 
had been before sworn. The Lords Justices reported that 
they had good reason to believe the same to be agreeable 
with the truth of the said matter of fact, that they were 
well informed that the Petitioner did all along contribute 
his best endeavours for the King and Queen's service, and 
that they had not heard of any person that had suffered in 
like manner, his house or goods never having been in the 
enemy's possession. 

James Corry asked by another petition that he might 
have in part compensation, a lease for a term of years at any 
easy rate, of a small estate that had belonged to one Cuco- 
naught Maguire, of Tullyvill, in the county of Fermanagh, 
a forfeiting person, upon which he and others had several 
judgments and mortgages, to near the value. This estate, 
it was alleged by him, was, by reason of its contiguity, con- 
venient to the petitioner, but of no present advantage to the 
Crown. This petition was referred by the Lord Lieutenant, 
Henry Viscount Sydney, on the 21st March, 1692, to Sir 
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he was credibly informed that the estate was not worth 
before the troubles, more than £150 a year; that a 
list of judgments charged upon it, and remaining on 
record, had been produced to him amounting to £1,500 and 
upwards; and that he was credibly informed that there were 
also debts due by mortgages upon some parts of the said 
lands ; and that the said estate was for the most part waste, 
and would not, in all probability, yield more than £80 per 
annum for some years to come, out of which was payable 
an annual crown rent of £36 7s. 10j<i 

The Solicitor-General further reported, that saving the 
rights of creditors, he was of opinion that the grant might 
be made as prayed ; and that as probably the petitioner by 
accepting the grant, might become liable to the quit rent, 
though he should receive no benefit from the lands, a clause 
might be inserted in the grant, that the petitioner might 
have an abatement of such rent as should be reserved 
upon him, in proportion to what of the estate should be 
detained from him, by any person or persons having incum- 
brances thereon ; the certainty or quantity of which could 
not then be made out. 

The Lord Lieutenant wrote to the Secretary of State the 
Earl of Nottingham, on the 3rd of May, 1694, that he not 
only concurred with the Solicitor-General in every particular, 
but thought himself obliged further to recommend the 
petitioner. Captain Corry, in a *recital of this letter, is 
described " as a person highly deserving our favour, and 
one who upon all occasions, not only in person but with 
his fortune, had given undeniable testimonies of his great 
zeal to our service, the continuance whereof, since the 
administration of that Government by our said Lieutenant 
having been particularly observed by him." 

The grant of the manor called Inseloghgease, in the barony 
of Tirkennedy, of which the denominations are fully set 
forth, (vide appendix S,) containing in all about 1,890 reputed 
Irish acres, and also of the town and lands of Beagh, in the 
barony of Glenawley, which had belonged to Maguire, is 
then made to him for ever, in accordance with the terms 
and saving clauses of the Solicitor-General's report, both as 
regards the creditors and the quit rent ; by the advice and 
with the consent of Henry Lord Capell, Baron of Tewxbery, 
Sir Cyrill Wych, knt.,and William Duncombe, esq., Justices 
and General Governors of Ireland. This estate lies about 
Lough Eyes, on the road between Lisbellaw and Tempo, 
and between that lake and the latter village. 

* In the patent ov grapt about to be alluded to. 



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The patent is signed by John Budden, D. C. Hanapy, 
(Deputy Clerk of the Hanaper.) 

With regard to the name of the manor, Dean Reeves* 
says : — 

" Though Lough Eyes, of modern form is so written in the map 
of 1609, I am persuaded it is but a phonetic form of that day, as 
well as the present, and that mif-locha-oigif (like Lough Egish in 
the parish of Aghnamullen, county Monaghan) signifying " Island 
of the lake of the sages," is the true form as represented in Bryan 
Maguire's patent of 31st Dec, 1610, where the manor is called 
Inseyloughygease, which divided would be Insey-lough-ygease. 
Pynnar calls the manor Innpodesjall. This Bryan Maguire was 
a younger son of Hugh Maguire who fell in the combat with Sir 
Warham St. Leger, and brother of Cuconnacht, who fled with the 
Earls, and died at Genoa. This Bryan was designated of Tullogh- 
weyley, as having the manor of Tusolaghagease. He died 24th 
April, 1655, and his inheritance passed to his grandson Cuconaght, 
then seven years of age. In the Inquisition, 1 Feb., 13 Car. II., 
the name of the manor is preserved." 

As I could find, amongst my papers, no trace of what had 
become of this estate, I wrote to Sir Bernard Burke, who 
has the custody of the Record Tower in Dublin Castle, to 
ask if he could give me any assistance ; in reply he sent me 
the following memorandum: — 

" The estate granted to Captain James Cony, in the county 
Fermanagh, 29th Nov. 1691, was the property of Cuconnagh 
Maguire, who fell at Aughrini 23rd July, 1691. Mary Maguire the 
widow of this Cuconnagh, claimed, 10th August, 1700, before the 
Commissioners of Forfeited Estates at Chichester House, a jointure 
out of these lands secured to her by deeds of 29th and 30th Dec. 
1 675. The sameday,her son and the heir of the attainted Cuconnagh, 
claimed the estate as his inheritance under marriage articles of 22ud 
Oct. 1675, his father having been only tenant for life. This 
Bryan Maguire was restored to his lands, containing about 2,000 
acres, by William III., and having married a lady of some means, 
paid off the mortgages that affected the lands, with his wife's 
fortune." 

James Corry also received on 30th December, 1693, a 
patent from the Crown, of a mortgage of £2,000, lent by 
Sir Edward Scott, knt., (who had been attainted for high 
treason,) to Richard, Earl of Tyrone (of the De la Poer 
family), and which had passed into possession of the Crown. 

It appeals by the counterpart of a release in my possession, 
dated 23rd June, 1697, that the then late Earl of Tyrone 
had, on the 25th and 26th February 1677, borrowed £2.000 

* Dean of Armagh —Letter from. 



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from Sir Edward Scott, and given him in security the lands of 
Hollywood, Dunbayhe, John's Town, Rathaton, Tintogher, 
Oghrany, Mollaghhiaghy, Woodenbooly, Lay glass, Greena- 
more, Ballintober, and Walterstown, in the county of 
Wicklow. The interest was to be £200 a year (10 per 
cent.); Sir Edward was to account for the balance of the rents; 
and Lord Tyrone reserved a right of redemption after 
five years had elapsed. Sir Edward having been attainted 
of high treason, this property had consequently, subject to 
the equity of redemption, passed to the Crown, who had 
granted it to Captain Cony by Patent. Sir Edward 
had meantime died. The document further recites, that 
an action had been brought in the chancery of the Court 
of Exchequer, by James Earl of Tyrone, son of Richard, 
against James Cony for an account, and that James Cony 
had brought another action in Chancery against Lord 
Tyrone, to foreclose the mortgage unless it were paid off 
within a reasonable time. An account had been taken by 
which it appeared, that a considerable sum was still owing 
to Cony, after allowing for rents received since the mortgage 
on the one hand, and for an abatement of interest for 
calamities of the times on the other, and all other payments 
and allowances whatsoever ; that James Corry was un- 
willing to insist on the extremity of his demand, and 
that it had been agreed between the parties, that £1,000 
should be paid and accepted in full satisfaction of the 
mortgage, and the lands released to Lord Tyrone. James 
Corry appoints William Gardiner, of the city of Dublin, 
gentleman, his attorney for putting Lord Tyrone into 
possession of the lands. 

I have gone fully into the particulars of these two grants, 
because Mr. Froude in his history of the English in Ireland, on 
the authority of the Report of the Chichester House Com- 
missioners of Forfeited Estates, made near the close of the 
reign, and which dealt with the Williamite grants, treats them 
as an abuse. Professor Witherow, who very justly complains 
of the nonpayment of their arrears of pay to the soldiers, and 
who takes MacCormick's side of the dispute between him 
and the Presbyterian party in Enniskillen on the one hand, 
and Captain Corry on the other, in December, 1688, thinks 
that no one made more out of the Revolution than Captain 
Corry, and treats his losses very lightly and as something 
he deserved, when as he calls it, he " fled " into England 
leaving his property to the chances of war. He omits to 
mention again in saying so, what he had in an earlier 
chapter pointed out, that the townspeople positively declined 
Captain Cony's services in the following January, who of 



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course was not to be expected to serve under Hamilton who 
had previously only been a cornet ; and who, no doubt, as 
holding the King's civil and military commission, was quite 
right in not being in a hurry to enter upon what looked 
like a hopeless resistance to the Government. 

His losses were proved on oath to have been £3,000 and 
upwards, — three years' income of his estate ; — and his 
reparation consisted in a grant of a very heavily incum- 
bered estate, upon which he himself had charges ; so heavily 
loaded indeed, that it was anticipated that it would not for 
some time produce a sufficient balance to enable him to pay 
out of it the quit rent ; (an estate moreover which speedily 
passed out of his hands, although, no doubt, he was repaid 
the amount of his own incumbrance on it) : and a mortgage 
for £2,000, which he within four years compromised for a 
smaller amount. 

The Report of the Commissioners on Forfeitures was made 
in 1702, thirteen or fourteen years after the events occurred. 
It contained one inaccuracy so gross and so obvious to any 
one acquainted with the circumstances, that it seems evident 
that no opportunity could have been given to James Corry 
to contradict it. When it appeared, however, he promptly 
took steps to obtain a certificate from those competent to give 
it, of what he had and had not done. The original is in my 
possession and I subjoin a copy of it. 

" Whereas the late commissioners for enquiring into the for- 
feitures of Ireland have in Paragraph ye 19th Reported in the case 
of James Cony, Esq., in ye following words (vitzt.): — 

" ' 49th Paragraph. 

" * To James Cony, Esq., two grants, one of a mortgage of two 
thousand pounds in fee of seavell Lands in the County of Wick- 
lowe due to Sir Edward Scott from ye Earle of Tyrone, the other 
of one thousand seven hundred and twenty-five acres of land, the 
consideration mentioned in the letters Patents are his house being 
burnt, and his having furnished the Garrison of Inniskillin with 
Provisions and Materials to the value of three thousand pounds 
ster., at his own expense, butt Inquiring into ye merrits of this 
gentleman, It appears to us yt that he gave no assistance to the 
Garrison of Inniskillen, that in the towne of Inniskillin he 
Publiquely declared he hoped to see all those hanged that tooke 
up Arms for ye Prince of Orange, and his house was hurn'd in the 
.said Garrison.' 

" Now at ye Request of the said James Corry, and for the 
better maniefestation of the truth, Wee the Provost and free 
Burgessess of the Corporation of Inniskillin, being then Resident 
in and about ye said towne, and most of uss officers in his late 
Majesties service of glorious Memory, doe certify e that the said 
James Corry wass verry Industrouse and Deligent in Raiseing and 



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Arming men for his late Majesties service, and for ye support and 
defence of the Protestant Interest of this Kingdom, that he raised 
a very good troope of horse and foot company, and mounted and 
arm'd many of them at his own expence, and furnished ym with 
Ammunition, and experienced officiers to exercise ym, that by his 
Incouragement seaverall of his Relations and freinds followed his 
example, that the Garrison of Iniskillin were supplied with con- 
siderable quantities of timber, Boards, Lyme and seaell (several) 
Boats that belonged to and were the proper goods of the said 
James Corry, and that the souldiers were subsisted by considerable 
quantities of provisions as Beefe, Meale, Come, Mault, and Butter. 
That the said James Corry's house in yt Garrison was not burnt, 
but continued and was left in good Bepaire, dureing ye warr 
time, and ever since to this day. But that his house of Castle 
Coole, which is about a mile out of ye towne, was burn'd by ye 
Governor's order, upon ye approch of ye Duke of Barwick and 
by ye advice of ye chief officiers, to prevent ye said Duke's, Posteing 
himselfe there. And not out of any disrespect or diskindness to 
ye said Coll. Corry, but for their owne safety, seaell of theire men 
being killed that day by ye said Duke of Barrwicks party, and ye 
said garrison being yn in great consternation haveing yt day sus- 
tained a greater loss yn in all ye wars. We likewise further 
certifye and doe verily believe, yt ye said words Aledged to bee 
spoke by ye said James Corry, (vizt.) that he said yt he hoped to 
see ym all hanged yt tooke up Armes for ye Prince of Orange were 
never spoke by him, for yt wee never heard him charged with ye 
same till by the said Report, nor doe we believe his principal es 
lead him to any such expressions, haveing always and upon all 
occasions showed himselfe forward to serve theire late Majesties 
and to Incourage his frends and relations to doe ye same. His 
only sonn having serv'd theire Majesties throughout ye late warr 
both in Ireland and flanders, and seaell of his other Relations 
having lost theire lives in ye said service. Nor was it probable 
for him to have spoke such words but sume of us must have heard 
him, or at least afterwards have heard of it, if he had publiquely 
used these expressions. 

" Dated and given under ye Corporation Seale this thirtieth dav 
of October, 1702. 

" (Signed) Tho. Letournell, Pvost. 

Da. Rynd: 
Jason Has sard. 
Paul Dane. Robert Clarke. 

Jo. Rynd. Jon. Hall. 

Will. Roscrow." 
[Sealed with the Corporation seal 

at the side opposite the 9th to 12th lines.] 

This document appears to me to possess no little historical 
interest. Given by the principal inhabitants of the borough , 
most of whom had been officers in the late war, to vindicate 
the honour of an individual, who after the war had been 



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admitted a member of their own corporation, and by the 
Government appointed (in 1 692) to a command similar, if 
not superior, to that which had been refused him in 1688 ; 
and who it has been shown had received bare compensation 
for his losses ; which compensation he had had the shrewdness 
to ask for in a form which did not cost the Government a 
penny of ready money — an article which appears to have been 
scarce in those days — ; and who certainly did not as has been 
inaccurately alleged, " found a family " noble or otherwise. 
This document shows incidentally how little to be relied on 
is the Report of the Commissioners on Forfeitures, if the 
specimen given in its 49th paragraph is a fair sample of the 
rest. It refers to two patents made in favour of James Corry, 
but it does not even quote their preamble correctly. He had 
put down all his losses at £3,000 and over, including the 
value of one of the best houses in that part of the country, 
which had been burnt for the preservation of the town ; 
and also including the arming and maintaining for several 
months of upwards of 60 horse soldiers and 100 foot soldiers. 
The Commissioners' report makes it appear that the £3,000 
was charged for provisions only. They said that they had 
made inquiry, and that it appeared to them that he gave no 
assistance to the garrison. This was true in the letter, 
because that the garrison appear to have appropriated his 
property and his troops themselves. Under the circum- 
stances they were justified in doing so, but on the other hand 
he was quite entitled to be paid for them. They state that 
he had received a grant of an estate of 1,725 acres. By this 
they meant Inchlochgease. Had they merely taken the 
trouble to add up correctly the acres set forth in the patent 
in detail, they would have found that it consisted of 1,905 
acres, including 15 acres in Beagh. They omitted to say 
that it was incumbered to such an extent as to render it of 
little more than a nominal value. 

As regards the words alleged to have been spoken, to 
which Colonel Corry appears to have attached what may 
seem to us an undue importance, but which in those days 
would have been more seriously regarded ; whilst it is very 
probable that in his altercation with Mr. Browning, on 
13th December, 1688, he gave him, the latter gentleman, his 
mind pretty T freely ; it should be borne in mind that even 
had he used the words attributed to him. and which he 
denied ; the Prince of Orange had not then been proclaimed 
in Enniskillen, nor was he for nearly twelve weeks later : 
and that Captain Corry was then an officer of King James. 

The certificate incidentally shows how little fit was the 
town to make any effectual resistance had it been really be- 



sieged. It was an open town, standing on an island, with 
bridges at either end, which were each commanded by an 
earthen fort (one where the Military Hospital now stands, 
the other on the site of Sir Lowry Cole's Monument), situated 
on two steep hills, which in an enemy's hands would have 
completely commanded the town. The certificate states 
that the townspeople lost more men in the skirmish on the 
13th of July, than in all the war. Professor Witherow, who 
relies on Lieutenant MacCormick's account, (who was not 
amongst the killed, but lived to write a book, " MacCormick's 
further Impartial Account of the Actions of the Inniskilling 
Men,") puts it at 50 killed and 20 wounded. 

Who Captain Corry's relations were who were killed in 
the war, I do not know. Two other Corrys besides James 
and John, viz., George and Hugh, signed the Enniskillen 
address to King William before referred to. Some years 
ago a Roman Catholic tenant-farmer named Thomas Kelly, 
who was the contractor for a county road in which I took 
an interest, wanted me to make him a further advance on 
his contract, and on my demurring, he urged as a reason 
why I should. do so, that his ancestor had taken into his 
house and protected at some time during the war, a member 
of my family who had been wounded. This tradition seems 
to bear out the statement of the certificate. 

The grossest inaccuracy of the report, is the statement that 
Captain Corry's house in the said garrison was burnt. He 
had two messuages in Enniskillen. One had been leased for 
ever to one John Shelton by Roger Atkinson, at £2 a year. 
In 1759, the date of my oldest rental, it was enjoyed by 
Henry Crawford, esq. The other, which was probably the 
house alluded to, was let in the year 1702 — -just about this 
time, — " to Mr. David Gibson, for the lives of Alexander 
Fulton, Debro Gibson, and Catherine Gibson, and on the 
death of each life to be renewed on paying three pounds 
then or six months after, with the usual clauses ; yearly 
rent £4." 

The rental has the following note in Mr. Armar's hand- 
writing. "Two lives dead, but query when no renewal 
offered. Alexander Fulton died, — Cat: Gibson died, — De- 
borah Gibson died in or about ye year 1757." 

This tenement is the one I believe which was purchased 
by the late Mr. William Dane, solicitor, who called upon 
me about 1857 to convert the tenure into a fee-farm grant, 
under the existing law for converting renewable leases into 
perpetuities ; and was not at all pleased to find that his 
predecessors in title, had for some time past not taken out 
their renewals, and that a large amount of fines had accu- 



HO 

mulated, which he had to pay with interest before he was 
entitled to his fee-farm grant. 

With regard to this case, Sir Bernard Burke has furnished 
me with the following memoranda : — 

Court of Claims at Chichester House. 

The Court of Claims originated in the Act of Resumption, 1 1 
& 12 William III. (English), which made void and resumed all 
King William's grants (1st Ann, English, c. 26) vested the lands in 
trustees, authorized them to hear all claims , and to sell the lands dis- 
charged of all such claims as they did not reserve. Chichester House 
stood where Parliament House, now the Bank of Ireland, stands. 

A printed list of the Chichester House claims is in the King's 
Inns Library, together with a list of the lands with the former 
proprietors' names and the purchasers'. The claims themselves 
and the evidence taken at the hearings are to be found at the 
Public Record Office, Four Courts. The evidence explains the 
right of each claimant, and gives the history of the deeds under 
which the claim was made. 

In the case of James Corry there was no necessity to lay any 
charge against him in the matter of M'Guire's estate. The case 
was simply as follows : — 

Cucconagh M'Guire sided witli James II. at the Revolution, 
and fell at the battle of Aughrim : he was attainted and his estate 
declared forfeited. 

About the middle of the reign of William III., Commissioners 
were appointed to inquire into all petitions and claims referring 
to the estates forfeited in 1688, to admit proper claims, and to sell 
those estates properly forfeited, not already granted, and then 
vested in the Crown. The estate of Cucconagh M'Guire being 
declared forfeited, was granted by the Crown to James Cony. 
Brien M'Guire the son and heir of the attainted M'Guire, lodged 
his claim with the Commissioners of Forfeited Estates, setting out 
that his father had settled the reversion of the estates on him by 
marriage articles in 1675, and that consequently Cucconagh 
M'Guire being only tenant for life, the attainder could only affect 
his life estate, and that at his death the estate should descend to 
him, Brien ; and that it was not vested in the Crown, and conse- 
quently the grant to Corry was void. This claim was admitted, 
and Brien M'Guire restored to his estate. 

At the same time Mary M'Guire, the mother of the claimant 
Brien, claimed her jointure under her marriage articles, which 
was also admitted. 

The petition of Brien M'Guire and that of his mother, Mary 
M'Guire, can be seen, along with the Commissioners' Decrees in 
the cases in the Chichester House Book. 

James Corry's name is included in the list of persons 
attained by King James' Parliament in Dublin, 1689. 
They had time given them to the 10th August to surrender. 
(Vide Harris, Appendix, B. 44.) 



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CHAPTER XII. 

james corry — continued— 1691-1718. 

James Corry's second marriage — and subsequent separation from his wife 
— Appointed to be Colonel of Horse Militia— Elected M.P. for Fer- 
managh — Elected a Burgess of Enniskillen — Appointed a Deputy- 
Governor of Fermanagh — Purchases an estate in County Longford — 
and property in Queen's- street, Dublin — Marriage of Rebecca Corry 
to Mr. Moutray — of John Corry to Sarah Leslie — His marriage 
settlement — Blank commissions for Colonel Corry's regiment — Mar- 
riage of Elizabeth Corry and Mr. Auchinlech — The fire at Ennis- 
killen — Colonel Corry appointed the Governor of Fermanagh — The 
Duke of Ormonde — Colonel Corry included in the Commission of 
Array — His Deerpark — Further purchase in Dublin —Family deeds — 
His will — and death. 

After he had retired to England James Corry married Miss 
Elizabeth Harryman, of St. Clement Danes', London. She 
appears to have had an interest in some property in Spring 
Gardens and near St. James'-street, London. 

There is a deed of trust, dated 15th April, 1691, between 
J ohn Pewdris, late of St. Clement Danes, but now of Guil- 
ford, Surrey, baker, and Huntley Bigg, of St. Martin's in the 
Fields, of the first part ; Elizabeth Harryman, of St. Clement 
Danes, spinster, of the second part ; Thomas Boteler, of 
Lincoln's Inn, esq., of the third part ; and George Hallett, of 
St. Martin's in the Fields, goldsmith, and Winifred Drinkett, 
of the parish of St. Mary's Savoy, of the fourth part ; rela- 
ting to a messuage leased by the Duke of Buckingham and 
others. An endorsement on the 25th March, 1692, appoints 
Nathaniel Harryman, of Coventry, woollen draper, trustee 
of the messuage for Elizabeth Harryman and her children. 

She appears to have had two tenements. One was in a 
new court to be called Crown Court,* on the east side of St. 
James'-street, Westminster. In an agreement for the 
marriage, dated 1st March, 1691-2, it was arranged that 
this should be for Elizabeth's sole use after James Corry's 
death. She had also a piece of ground adjoining Wallingford- 
house (Spring Garden) in the parish of St. Martin's. The 
reversion of this was on the 25th March, 1692, conveyed and 
released to her in consideration of her intended marriage ; 
otherwise to be of no effect. 

There were apparently no children of this marriage, and 

* Crown Court is now a passage between Pall Mall and King-street, St. James'. 



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Colonel Cony and his wife seem to have separated, and 
she brought an action against him for alimony. It appears 
by the Journals of the Irish House of Commons that it was 
ordered on the 21st November, 1695, "that Colonel Curry, 
a member of this House, have leave to waive his privilege 
in a cause between him and Mrs. Elizabeth Harryman." 
On the 21st August, 1696, Christopher Davenport, of New 
Inn, in the county of Middlesex, in his defeasance, states 
that Colonel Cony's bond for £300 is to pay £20 a year to 
Elizabeth Cony during their joint lives. On the same day 
she executed a release, &c, from all suits of alimony, an 
accommodation having been come to ; and there is another 
deed (dated the same day) leading to the uses of a fine 
between James Corry, Elizabeth Cony, Denny Muschamp, 
esq., of the Pell Mell, in the parish of St. James West- 
minster, Richard Turner of the Inner Temple, and Richard 
Baker of the city of London, watchmaker, barring right of 
dower and all other rights which Elizabeth had or might 
have, over the manors of Castlecoole, Clabby, Inishleague, 
and the other Fermanagh lands. 

In 1692 Captain Corry was elected one of the Knights of 
the Shire for the county (Fermanagh), and continued to sit 
in successive Parliaments until his death, upwards of a 
quarter of a century afterwards. That he was a firm sup- 
porter of the Government in their endeavours to carry out 
their engagements with the defeated party, and in which 
they appear to have been so steadily and persistently opposed 
by the bulk of the successful party, I take for granted, from 
the warm support given to his claims for compensation b}~ 
Lord Sydney in his letter to the Duke of Newcastle in 1693. 
From the fact of an old MS. copy of the celebrated 
" Limerick Articles " having been handed down in the 
family, I assume that he took an interest in that question. 
Further than this I can find no traces of his parliament aiy 
career. 

In the same year he was appointed by Viscount S} T dney, 
the then Lord Lieutenant, to be colonel of a regiment of 
horse of the militia raised or to be raised in the county of 
Fermanagh. This commission is dated 24th November, 1692. 

On the 2nd October, 1694, Colonel Cony, who is des- 
cribed as " one of the Freemen of the said Towne " (of 
Enniskillen) was " In open Court of the said Corporation 
elected one of the Free and Principall Burgesses of the same, 
by Thomas Le Tournell, esq., then Provost, with the full and 
free consent of the burgesses and freemen thereof then pre- 
sent, and tooke his corporall oath on the Holy Evangel, well 
and truly to execute and pertbrme the office and place of a 



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free burgess of the same." The burgess writ is signed by 
Mr. Le Tournell, the Provost, and sealed with the Cor- 
poration Seal. 

On the 7th December, 1696, Colonel Cony received a 
commission as one of the Deputy Governors of the county 
Fermanagh. This is signed by the Lords Justices, Lord 
Chancellor Charles Porter, and the Earls of Montrath and 
Drogheda, and countersigned Cha. Dering. 

By a deed dated the 29th December, 1693, between James 
Corry, and Major Henry Smith of Colonel Tiffan's regiment, 
James Corry for a consideration of £100, let Drummack, 
Tinrah, Trenish, and Drumleag to Major Smith at a yearly 
rent of £15, for the lives of the said Henry Smith, and his 
nephews, Roger and Henry, sons of William Smith, or the 
longest liver of them. 

In the year 1697 Colonel Cony purchased an estate in 
the county of Longford in the name of his son John, for 
which he paid £850, of which he seems to have borrowed 
£600 from Lord Kerry, to whom he mortgaged the lands. 
It consisted of the lands of Ballagh, Clonbolt, Fahy, other- 
wise Fiagh, Clonralogh, Clonealagh, Lisnegrenoge, Knock- 
martin, Coregrany, the Two Leitrims, Coghona, otherwise 
Cohana, Gortimcran, Gilshoh, Gigelshah, Drung, Aghacor- 
drinan, Carowmacorke and Clinra, containing about 2,600 
acres, in the baronies of Granard and Longford. These 
seem to have been purchased from a Mr. Fenner. 

King Charles the Second appears (from a list of deeds in 
Mr. Armar's catalogue, which is again my authority), to 
have granted a patent in the year 1678 to Sir Hobert Booth 
and Sir Audley Mervyn for certain lands in the county of 
Longford and some tenements in Dublin. They entered 
into a deed of trust to a Mr. Burdet, of the lands men- 
tioned in the patent which were his. A division of 
the lands was made between Sir Audley Mervyn and Mr. 
Burdet. Mr. Burdet sold them to a Mr. Minchin (with part 
of a tenement in Dublin) in 1702. Mr. Minchin sold Aghacor- 
drinan, &c, to James Corry in 1707, the price being £135. 
There is at Castlecoole a counterpart (which has been used 
as a wrapper for deeds) of a deed of mortgage, dated 20th 
December, 1701, from Captain Corry to the Bishop of Cloyne, 
which bears an endorsement signed and sealed by the 
Bishop (who quartered a saltier gules). This is a mortgage 
of lands in the barony of Longford stated to be of the full 
yearly value of £80, for the sum of £600. Twenty-four 
pounds were to be paid to the Bishop on the 24th December, 
1702, at Strongbow's tomb in Christ Church, Dublin, and 
£624 on 24th December, 1702— the deed then to be void. 



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In 1697 (26th Feb.) James Corry also purchased, in the 
name of his son, two tenements in Oxmantown, in the 
suburbs of Dublin, on the west side of Queen-street, for 
£500. These, in 1709, were in the occupation of Sir Richard 
Levinge and Mr. William Poole. As Col. Corry is described 
in two deeds about the latter date as " of the city of 
Dublin," he may probably have principally resided for a 
time in one of these houses. I do not know whether he re- 
paired Castlecoole after his return from England. The 
plans of his new house, ol which the old one or what 
remained of it, appeared to constitute the kitchen wing, are 
dated 1 709, so that it is possible that he was not much at 
Castlecoole between the lire in 1689 and 1710. 

In 1698 Colonel Corry's eldest daughter Rebecca married 
James Moutray, esq., of the county Tyrone, and from this 
marriage are descended the family of Moutray, of Favor 
Royal. 

In 1701-2 John Corry married Miss Sarah Leslie, and he 
and his father settled the estate by a deed dated 7th February. 
I have not been able to refer to the original settlement, which 
is missing ; but it is recited in other documents, and in par- 
ticular, in John Corry's will. From this it appears that the 
manors and reputed manors of Castlecoole and Clabby, the 
tenements in Enniskillen, and the two burgess acres or parks 
near the town were resettled ; the entail made by the former 
settlement of 1679 being cut off by the usual method of fine 
and recovery. I have the line passed on this occasion. 
The denominations mentioned are the four tates of the 
demesne of Castlecoole, called Kedagh and Cunneyberry, 
four tates of Agharainy and Drumrainy, four tates of 
Killvilly, four tates of Lissan, four tates of Balryreagh and 
four tates of Carrowmacmea, the tate of Rosmoland, the tate 
of Mullaghmacthomas, the tate of Killinan, the two tates of 
Kilnamaddy and Killyrea, the tate of Drumcrow, the two 
tates of Tullyharne and Killibar, the tate of Glasmullagh, 
the tate of Killygrane, the tate of Kilsallagh, also Clabby, 
Moysnaght, Knockabrogett, Mullaghsillagh, and Mullagh- 
foure, Ramally, Camgart, Bocagh, Drumbroane, (two nearly 
undecipherable words) Mullaghknock, Tyralton, Drumderge, 
and Modena, Tullynephin (some undecipherable words), and 
the messuages in and the parks near Enniskillen. This is 
dated 5 th June, 1702. 

Miss Leslie, who was a coheiress,* and in right of whom 
I quarter the arms of Leslie and Abernethy, had an estate 
of her own, probably of no great extent, in the county of 

* Her father is said, in an old edition of Lodge's Peerage of the last century, to 
have been a cadet of the House of Rothes. 



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Antrim. A jointure out of the Fermanagh estate was settled 
on her, to the extent of £200 a year, and John Corry had a 
power of appointment to the extent of £1,500 for younger 
children, with a further power of charging the estate with 
£500 for any use he might think fit. 

There seems to be an indication that Colonel Corry 's 
regiment of horse militia was intended to be called out 
in 1702, the year in which the Commission on Forfeitures 
made their report before alluded to. Queen Anne was 
now on the throne. I have several commissions dated 17th 
October, 1702, the first year of Her Majesty's reign. 
One appoints Colonel Corry " to be Captain of a troop of 
Horse in the Militia of the county Fermanagh." I believe 
it was customary in those days to give the colonel of a 
regiment a troop or company. Another is a blank commis- 
sion to appoint " to be Lieutenant of that Troop 

whereof Coll. James Corry is Capt. in the militia of the 
county of the Fermanagh." This officer would have com- 
manded the troop, and would, I believe, have been known 
as the " Captain Lieutenant." There are also similar blank 
commissions for a Cornet and a Quarter-Master of the troop. 
I presume that it was intended by the Lords Justices 
" Thos. Erie " and " Tho. Keightley," whose signatures are 
attached, to give Colonel Corry the nomination of the officers 
of his own troop. The commissions are countersigned "J. 
Dawson." 

Colonel Corry 's second daughter, Elizabeth, married Mr. 
James Auchinlech, in 1704 it is supposed. There has been 
some difficulty in fixing this date; but I believe it to be 
correct. 

On 2nd June, 1 705, a disastrous fire occurred in the town 
of Enniskillen. 

The Mayor, Burgesses, and Commons of the town pre- 
sented a petition to James, Duke of Ormonde, then Lord 
Lieutenant, in which they said that they had in the late 
rebellion, as well as in that of 1641, not only defended and 
preserved the town against the Irish Papists, who in great 
numbers appeared against them, but obtained many signal 
victories over them in the field, not only to the advantage 
of the Protestant interest of this kingdom, but of the Crown 
and people of England, as is notoriously known. 

They said that they had been much decayed and lessened 
in their substance, not only by the maintaining many 
thousands of poor, stript Protestants who came for protec- 
tion in the late rebellion, but [by] several terrible fires that 
have happened in the town, particularly on Saturday, the 
2nd inst., which has, to a very small matter, reduced the 

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whole town to ashes ; and was so sudden and violent, that 
they saved little or nothing of their household goods and 
other effects ; so that they have, to the best computation, 
lost to the value of £8,000. 

They further said that they had never, in the late reign, or 
this, applied to their Majesties for any relief or reward for 
their services or sufferings aforesaid : 

" But now being poor, disconsolate, and entirely ruined, so that 
they have neither house to go into, beds to He in, nor wherewithal 
to buy bread. 

" May it therefore please your Grace to grant your Petitioners 
the benefit of a ful] collection. 

" And your Petitioners will ever pray." 

This petition was referred by the Lord Lieutenant, on the 
21st for report, with a certificate to be presently referred to, to 
the Lord Primate, Archbishop Narcissus Marsh, of Armagh;* 
who on the 22nd June, reported that he had considered them, 
" and do believe the petitioners to be objects of charity/' If 
His Grace thought fit, he might allow them the benefit of a 
full collection, from house to house throughout the kingdom, 
and in all cathedrals and parish churches; and order the 
churchwardens, both in Dublin and elsewhere, to go to the 
respective houses of the inhabitants of each parish to receive 
their charity, and take the best means and methods to 
induce them to it with all convenient speed. 

On the following day, June 23rd, the Lord Lieutenant 
issued a Brief, upon consideration of the Primate's report, 
recommending the petitioners in a very particular manner 
to the deans of the several cathedrals, and ministers of the 
several parishes throughout the whole kingdom, to allow 
them the benefit of a full collection, both in the cathedrals 
and churches, and from house to house, and the church- 
wardens were to go to the houses of the inhabitants of each 
parish to receive their charity, and to take the most effectual 
means to induce them to it. All which they were to do 
the next Sunday and week-days following, immediately after 
this (or a printed copy hereof made by Her Majesty's 
printer), shall be presented unto them for the petitioners' re- 
lief. This order was to continue in force for a year from the 
date thereof. 

I have taken this from a printed paper dated " Dublin : 
Printed by Andrew Crook, Printer to the Queen's Most 
Excellent Majesty, on the Blind-Key, 1705." 

* Narcissus Marsh, a native of Hannington, Wilts, having been Provost of 
Trinity College, Dublin, became Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1683, Arch- 
bishop of Cashel in 1691. of Dublin 1694, and was Lord Primate from 1703 
to 1713. 



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I have a MS. copy of the certificate before alluded to, 
which was sent with the petition to the Primate. It is 
dated 15th June (thirteen days after the fire), and certifies 
that the several inhabitants of the town of Iniskillin, that 
were sufferers and had their houses and substance con- 
sumed by fire on the second instant, came before the four 
gentlemen who sign the document publickly in the Sessions 
House of Iniskillin, and each particular person made 
oath upon the Holy Evangelist, of their losses sustained, 
according to the best of their knowledge and judgment, and 
gave in, each a particular accompt of their losses, there being 
114 families that suffered by the late fire, besides servants, 
in all amounting to the tune of £7,911 13s. 4cZ. sterling, and 
inventry and a particular account ready to be produced 
when demanded, besides her Majesty's barrack, with all 
utensils thereunto belonging, with £73 16s. l\d. sterling of 
her revenue lodged with one Mr. Stoite, a gager. This is 
signed by 

Jo. Corey. 

Da. Rynd. 

Ja. Hassard. 

Allan Cathcart. 
The MS. is endorsed. 

This is a true copy of the originall certificate lodg'd with 
me (annexed to the petition of the Provost, &c, of Iniskillin) 
now remaining in my custody. Witness my hand this 28th 
day of June, 1705. 

(Signed), John Moland, 

Not. Pubb." 

It appears from the MS. copy of another document dated 
February 7th, 1705-6, that the Provost, Burgesses and others 
of the principal sufferers by the fire on the 12th July last 
past, had by a certain instrument unanimously appointed 
James Corry, of Castlecoole, one of the burgesses of the cor- 
poration, to be their agent for managing and obtaining what 
money could or might be collected, as well upon the Lord 
Lieutenant's Brief, as of what voluntary subscriptions are 
or should be made for them ; in which instrument the Right 
Rev. the Lord Bishop of Clogher and James Corry were 
empowered to name a fit person in the city of Dublin, in 
whose hands the money collected or to be collected should 
be lodged, as it was received from time to time. 

The document then proceeds to appoint Mr. Francis 
Harrison of the city of Dublin, banker, to receive such sums 
from time to time ; for which he is to give notes payable to 
such person or persons, as the said Provost, Burgesses, and 

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other sufferers should appoint ; as also, the several church- 
wardens or other persons, concerned in the collection of the 
money, are to give lists attested under their hands unto 
James Corry, of the sums they have received, and the per- 
sons from whom, as vouchers for a true account of the same. 

This document was sealed and dated 7th February, 1705, 
and signed St. Geo. Clogher ; Ja: Corry ; in presence of Thos, 
Ashe ; David Pages. 

On the back of the leaf is an autograph endorsement by 
the banker : — 

" On the other side is a true copy of the power left with me by 
Coll. James Corry. Witness my hand this 11 March, 1705. 

"Fran. Harrison." 

The Bishop of Clogher at this time was Dr. St. George 
Ashe, a daughter of whom married Sir Ralph Gore, of 
Belleisle, county Fermanagh. 

I do not know what was the result of the collection. 

On the 25th of June in this year 1705, the Duke of 
Ormonde appointed Colonel James Corry to be Governor of 
the county of Fermanagh. The commission runs thus : — 

"You are to take into your charge and care as Governor thereof, 
and by yourself or your sufficient Deputy Governor or Governors, 
to be appointed by us or other Chief Governor or Governors of this 
Kingdom for the time being, to command and govern all the 
Militia Forces of Horse Foot and Dragoons that now are, or here- 
after shall be raised, within the said county, for Her Majesty's ser- 
vice and the Defence of this Kingdom." 

The said forces are commanded to obey him, and he is to 
obey such directions as he may receive from Her Majesty or 
the Lord Lieutenant or other Chief Governor or Governors 
of the Kingdom for the time being. The Governor of a 
county was I believe in a military sense the equivalent 
of a Lord Lieutenant. He was not however " Custos 
Rotulorum." 

It may be interesting to give here the titles of this Lord 
Lieutenant. James, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Ormonde, 
Earl of Brecknock and Ossory, Viscount Thurles, Baron Butler 
of Lanthony and Moorpark, and Baron of Arklow, Lord Lieu- 
tenant General and General Governor of Her Majesty's 
Kingdom of Ireland, Chief Butler of the said Kingdom, 
Lord of the Regalities and Liberties of the county Pala- 
tine of Tipperary, General of the Horse, Captain of one 
of Her Majesty's Troops of Horse Guards, Lord Lieutenant 
of the county of Somerset, one of the Lords of Her Majesty's 
Most Honorable Privy Council, Knight of the Most Noble 
Order of the Garter, Chancellor of the Universities of 



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Oxford and Dublin, and High Steward of the Cities of 
Westminster, Bristol, and Exeter. 

He took part after the Queen's death with the Pretender, 
and died in exile. 

In 1707 Colonel Corry s name was included in the " Com- 
mission of Array," for the county of Fermanagh, dated 
18fch June. The names were, Sir William Gore, Sir James 
Caldwell, Sir Michael Cole, William Archdale, James Corry, 
[^undecipherable] Christopher Irwin, Hugh Montgomery, 
Allan Cathcart, and Jason Hassard. 

In 1707, 1 find the first trace amongst my papers of any 
of the improvements or works at Castlecoole, which are still 
in existence. On a sheet of foolscap paper, which bears two 
impressed sixpenny stamps (the oldest stamped document 
amongst my papers), is an Indenture made 4th September, 
1707, between Sir Michael Cole, of Eniskilling, Knt., and 
James Corry, whereby Sir Michael, for the sum of 5s., 
and for the further consideration of four acres of land, 
part and parcel of Agharenagh, mared and bounded with a 
ditch and quicksett contiguous to Lackaboy, and now in 
his possession, granted to James Corry and his heirs for 
ever four acres of Lackaboy " which is enclosed within the 
stone wall of the said James Corry 's Deer Park, and lies 
contiguous to the lands of Drumrenagh." 

This is signed in a shaky hand, " Michael Cole." 

It is noted that the paper was first stamped according to 
Act of Parliament. It is witnessed as follows : — 

I do hereby Ratefye and Confirm nry Father's act relating to 

ae as a witnes 
John Cole. 



what the above deed contains and sign unto the same as a witness. 



" [Witnesses] 
" Tho. Johnson, 
" Rob. Finlay." 

The deerpark had evidently been lately made. It con- 
tained about 132 Irish acres, was well watered by three 
running streams, and some of it was land of an excellent 
quality. It took up most of the townland of Killyvilly — 
the rest being held by one Wilson, a descendant of whom 
still holds a portion of the original holding, and is I think 
the only tenant now holding land in the manor who could 
trace his family back in the male line, in the same farm, to 
this time. There may be some indeed whose ancestors were 
undertenants, but I have no means in my possession of 
identifying them. 

This document clearly identifies the position of Drum- 

* Word looks like Doctor. 



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renagh, to be what is now called Camphill and the adjoin- 
ing land, a portion of which was included in the deerpark. 

About sixty or seventy years ago the deerpark was 
greatly reduced in size, by building a wall across it. All to 
the north and east of the wall was converted into farms. 
The park was entirely broken up in 1846. A considerable 
portion of both walls however still remains. A small part 
of Carrowmacmea was included in it. 

The Tempo road now skirts the portion dealt with in 
this deed, which has been erroneously mapped by the 
Ordnance surveyors as Killyvilly. 

In this or the next year Colonel Corry appears to have 
purchased in the name of his son, some more property in 
Oxmantown Green, Dublin, known as the 94th and 95th lots, 
on the east side of it. In 1664, the then Lord Mayor and 
Corporation had made a fee-farm grant of the 94th lot to 
William Dodson, of London, who in 1671 conveyed it to 
Mr. James Napper (of Loughcrew). In 1664, the Mayor, 
&c, had also granted the 65th lot to Joseph Stoaker, who 
in 1666, conveyed it to Dodson. Dodson gave a bond to Mr. 
Napper for £200, on conveying both the lots to him, to make 
good his deeds of conveyance. But, besides Mr. Napper, 
Sir William Parsons, and Mr. Edward Wolf appear to have 
had an interest in the two lots. Wolf conveyed his interest 
to Mr. John Corry, in 1697, the year in which the latter, or 
rather his father, purchased the houses on the other side of 
Queen-street, in Oxmantown ; but Sir William and Mr. 
Napper do not appear to have parted with their shares to 
him until 170S. Sir William Parsons also gave a bond for 
£200 to Mr. Corry to make good his conveyance. 

In this year Colonel Corry, who is described as of the 
city of Dublin, and his " only son " John (who is described 
as of Bonnybrooke, where he resided on a farm, the lease of 
which he had purchased from a Mr. Laurence Crawford, who 
held it under James Corry, and who himself, I think, resided 
in the house on James Corry 's old leased farm in Carrow- 
macmea,) joined in a declaration of trust respecting the 
estates. This deed recites that, by the marriage settlement 
of 1701, of John, on the occasion of his marriage with Sarah 
Leslie, the manors of Castlecoole and Gabby, and divers 
other lands therein mentioned (I have not got the settle- 
ment of 1701, but the lands near Toppid mountain and the 
Monaghan lands, were probably meant), were conveyed to 
Stephen Ludlow and William Conolly, in trust, to certain 
uses and limitations, and that the lands were before mort- 
gaged by James and John to Charles Melvill for £800, the 



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proper debt of James. I have Mr. Melvill's counterpart of 
Colonel Cony's mortgage to him, dated 29th November, 
1700. James and John Corry mortgaged to him for £800, 
Ramally, Clabby, Moysnoght, Mullaghsilligagh, Drumcor, 
Brackagh, and the mill of Clabby, all in the barony of 
Tirkennedy. Also Laragh and Cornecary, in the barony of 
Cremorne. Interest was to be at the rate of 8 per cent., 
and the lands were certified to be of the clear value of £160 
per annum. It further recites that certain lands were con- 
veyed to John Corry, in the baronies of Longford and Granard, 
in 1697, for £850 ; and also on the 27th February, in the 
same year, two houses on the west side of Queen-street in 
Oxmantown, Dublin, for £500. That the £850 and £500 
were the monies of James Corry, and by him paid for the lands 
and houses. That it was agreed by the marriage settlement 
that John should be seized of all the lands so conveyed to 
the said John Corry, to the intent that J ohn and Sarah and 
their issue, and the estates limited, might be indemnified 
from the said mortgage, and from some other debts men- 
tioned in the settlement, and from costs. If they should 
suffer any loss thereby they were to be indemnified out of 
the rents and profits. 

The declaration of trust then recites that the mortgage 
had been paid off", but that James had had to borrow £700 
towards doing so, by borrowing, together with John Corry 
and James Auchinlech (his son-in-law), £400 from James Glad- 
stone, on the 4th November, 1707, to be repaid with interest 
on the 11th December,1709 ; £200 from John Speer ; and £100 
on December 1st, 1707, from John Speer, William Hanck- 
ness, Mary Hanckness, Anna Hanckness, and James Grain. 
John Corry and his executors, &c, were to be indemnified 
as before. 

On the 28th February, 1708, James and John Corry exe- 
cuted a further declaration of trust, which commences by a 
repetition of the matter in that of the previous year, 
and then adds the conveyance (stated to be on 25th December 
last) of the two lots 94 and 95, in Dublin, from Mr. Napper 
of Loughcrew. It says that Mr. Napper's share of the £500 
purchase-money was £375, but that there had been really 
due and owing to him for principal and interest, £700, which 
James Corry had had to borrow as follows : — on 15th 
December, 1708, James and John Corry gave a bond to 
secure £400 to James Cathcart, of Tulliceter, county Fer- 
managh ; also another bond on the same day to secure £100 
to Robert Crawford ; and a third on the 4th January, 1708-9 
to James Speer. It declares that these severally are the 
proper debts of James Corry, and that John and his heirs 



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are to be indemnified ; but that John holds the lots 94 and 
95 in trust only for James, who may dispose of them by will 
or otherwise. No explanation is given why James Corry made 
these purchases in Longford and Dublin, in his son's name. 

In 1708 I come upon some more militia commissions. 
Colonel James Corry. on the 26th April, received a fresh 
commission as colonel of horse. Malcolm Cathcart (either 
the same person, or a namesake of the person who was one 
of the five original " defenders " of EnniskiJlen,) received a 
troop of horse in the regiment, and Thomas Smith was 
appointed to be his lieutenant. On the same day Jason Has- 
sard was appointed to be a captain in Colonel John Corry's 
regiment of foot. I might have supposed this last to have 
been an error, as John Corry's commission as Colonel is 
dated 1715, as will hereafter be seen, but for the endorse- 
ment on the back of Captain Hassard's commission, in Mr. 
Armar's handwriting, who must have known the facts. 

In 1709 Colonel Corry had plans prepared for rebuilding, 
or rather building, a new mansion-house, which was, I 
presume, commenced shortly afterwards. I have alternative 
plans of it, the larger of which only fits the elevation. The 
older building, or what remained of it after the fire of 1689, 
was turned into a kitchen wing. The house was sixty feet 
in length, consisting of a three-windowed dining room 
facing the west, probably about twenty or twenty-one feet 
long, a hall with one window at the side of the door, and 
on the other side of the hall was a two-windowed sitting 
room, which, in later days, would probably have been called 
a study. Facing the east was a drawing room, at the south 
end ; a staircase in the middle of the house ; and a bed room 
at the north end. A back staircase went up between this 
room and the wing rooms. On the first floor were bed rooms 
with what are called in the plan, closets, that is, little rooms 
through the bed rooms* (except over the hall), probably used 
either for powdering or washing rooms. Up stairs were 
some more rooms in the slope of the roof with dormer win- 
dows ; some of these had fireplaces, (the fireplaces in this 
house were often in an angle of the room), and were prob- 
ably used as family rooms. I have seen a house built 
originally (for it has been added to), nearly on the same 
plan and of the same dimensions, except that it has a base- 
ment story. This plan of building gives more room and 
better rooms than might be expected. 

The house was built on a very peculiar ridge of ground 

* Some of these could, I think, he got at from the passages. The inconvenient 
plan of having dressing rooms, only to be entered through the bed rooms, mmh 
prevailed in old houses. 



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close to Lough Coole, which lies on the higher side of it.* 
All that remains of the old building is the well, which 
is utilized by means of a forcing pump for the present 
house, which is some 300 yards off. When the land 
springs are high this well stands nearly full, although 
within a few yards of it, the ground has been terraced to 
a considerable depth, on one side, whilst it falls rapidly 
to the lake on the other. The stables, and some few and 
probably poor farm office-houses stood to the north of the 
house, on the ridge. 

Near its site to the south, are three very old pollarded 
sweet chestnut trees, and a younger one, probably a seed- 
ling. Though now sheltered by an oak avenue, they lean 
away to the east, which shows that in their younger days 
they were exposed to the west wind. These are the only 
trees in Castlecoole demesne which I can suppose to be 
older than the date of this house. They have evidently 
been in a hedge which was levelled probably in the middle 
of the last century. 

There are within a short distance of the present house, 
a row of exceedingly fine beech trees, which are some 125 
feet high, and some of them of considerable girth. The 
largest, of which only a dead stump remains, I measured 
when the last arm broke off, and found it to be of that height. 
This, however, was a forked tree. At four feet from the 
ground its circumference is seventeen feet. The other trees 
vary very much in circumference, and some of them have 
got very rotten, as have the three old sweet chestnuts men- 
tioned in another place. These beech trees I consider from 
the number of rings I counted upon the butt of one of them 
which had fallen some few years before, to have been planted 
very shortly after the house was built about 1710. The soil 
is rich, but the ground rises very quickly above the trees 
(which probably were originally planted in a boundary 
fence), so that they are well sheltered from westerly winds. 

Several of these great trees were blown down in the great 
circular storm of January, 1839. I was at Castlecoole at 
the time, but was too young to remember the immense 
havock which was made in the woods by it. The tree, 
whose butt I measured, fell some seventeen or eighteen 
years ago, on a calm wet day, coming up by the roots, and 
the butt of it was, I believe, sound. 

It is rather remarkable, that when the last arm of the 
fork of the largest tree of all fell some few years ago, a 
branch which had grown across an arm of its neighbour, 

* A large flock of pure grey lag geese still exists upon Lough Coole. They 
never stray very far from the lake, and are very tame. 



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and become inarched in it, was pulled off, and now regularly 
comes into leaf with the other tree, the sap of course at one 
end flowing the wrong way. There are a good many fine 
trees upon the bank and hill above these beech trees, of 
different sort and ages, including two or three Spanish 
chestnuts, some spruce and silver firs, and larches. The 
latter were not introduced into Ireland till long after the 
date I have arrived at. This bank is sometimes a very 
good place for woodcocks, being planted with laurels. 

In 1709 Colonel Corry made a settlement of portions of 
his estates which were in his own power, or over which he 
had a power of appointment or alteration. 

On the 18th February in that year, by anindenture tripartite 
between James Corry of the first part; Hugh Montgomery of 
Derrygonnelly, and Lawrence Crawford, of Cairo wmacmea, 
county Fermanagh, of the second part; and James Moutray, of 
Aghamoyles, county Tyrone, and Charles Stewart, of Mount 
Stewart, in the county of Dublin, of the third part; it was re- 
cited that the lands of Ballagh, Clonbolt, Fahy, otherwise 
Fiagh, Clonralogh, Clonealogh, Lisnegrenoge, Knockmartin, 
Coregraney, the two Leitrims, Coghona, otherwise Cohana, 
Gortinoran, Gilshoh, Gilgelshah, Drung, Aghacordrinan, 
Carowmacorke, and Clintra, in the baronies of Longford and 
Granard, containing by estimation about 2,600 acres more 
or less, as also two houses in Queen-street, Dublin, in the 
occupation of William Poole and Sir Richard Levinge res- 
pectively, were purchased in the name of John Corry, but 
nevertheless in trust for James and his heirs, and with his 
proper money; and whereas John stood bound for some 
debts of James, and by the settlement of 1701 it was 
declared that the premises were purchased in trust for 
James, and that James might dispose of them by deed or 
will, subject to indemnifying John against the mortgages 
and debts ; and whereas James was seized in fee of the lands 
of Derryharney, Agholow, Coreclare, part of Mullaghkippin, 
part of Goleagh, Clonecarnan, Droles, Attaclanbryan, 
Corephat and Legatillid, in the barony of Magherastephana 
and county of Fermanagh, and was disposed to settle the 
above as hereafter mentioned ; he therefore (having pre- 
viously executed a lease for a year) released, for various 
considerations, and particularly of £10, the lands in Long- 
ford, the tenements in Dublin, and the lands in the barony 
of Magherastephana, to Montgomery and Crawford, in trust 
first for his own use for life, without impeachment of waste ; 
and then he created a term of 999 years after his death, 
during which they were conveyed to Moutray and Stewart 
and their heirs, in trust for the use of his son John for life, 



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and after his death, to the use of John's sons and their heirs 
male successively. But failing heirs male, to the use of 
John's daughter Martha and her heirs male, or failing them 
of any other daughters of John successively. But to this 
was attached a rather singular proviso ; Martha Corry was 
to marry, within three years of her becoming marriageable, 
her cousin John, the eldest son of her aunt, Rebecca 
Moutray, if they should both live to the age of marriage, 
and he would consent thereto and take the name of Corry, 
and use and write himself by it, for himself and his children; 
and his father would settle on the marriage, and John and 
Martha's heirs male by the marriage, his whole estate of in- 
heritance. If John Moutray died before Martha was mar- 
riageable or had married her, then his next brother Anketill 
was to be substituted for him under similar conditions, in- 
cluding using and writing himself by the name of Corry. 
But if Martha should die before this arrangement could be 
carried out, then any other daughters that John Corry might 
have, were to be substituted for her successively in order of 
birth. The only relaxation of the condition being that John 
or Anketill should not have been previously married. 

From this I gather that Martha was at this time the only 
child of John Corry, and had been born for some little 
time. No other daughter is mentioned by name. I may 
add that all this forethought for Martha Corry's future 
marriage was thrown away. She did eventually inherit 
the Longford and Dublin property, but when the time 
arrived, many years afterwards, she was provided with 
another husband. John Moutray married Miss Elizabeth 
Montgomery. 

Tf a daughter were to refuse to carry out the condition of 
marriage, within three years of attaining marriageable age 
and being actually seized of the premises ; then her interest 
in them should cease, and the trustees should hold them to 
the use of the next daughter who would comply with the 
condition. 

The trustees were to pay an annuity of £6 to Elizabeth 
Jackson alias Kirke. She was, I believe, a servant, and 
housekeeper at Castlecoole, nearly a quarter of a century 
later. The trustees were then to raise portions for Colonel 
Corry's grand- daughters, the children of his second 
daughter, Elizabeth, who had married Mr. James Auchinlech, 
and lived at Thomas Hill, now called Thomastown, just 
outside Castlecoole demesne. Mr. Auchinlech belonged to a 
family sprung from a gentleman who had come from Scot- 
land, and according to tradition, was married to a daughter of 



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President Keith. Mr. Auchinlech himself was the son of 
the Rev. James Auchinlech, rector of the parish of Cleenish, 
(one of the Trinity College advowsons,) not far from Castle- 
coole, by his wife Margaret, whom he had married in 1650. 

In 1704 he married Elizabeth Corry, and had (besides five 
daughters), an only son, also called James, who married in 
1734, Susanna Corry of a different family. This last pair 
had a son, the Rev. Alexander Auchinlech, rector of Ros- 
sory — a parish immediately adjoining Enniskillen. He 
married Jane Eccles, of Ecclesville, who was niece of Gal- 
braith Lowry, who as already has appeared, married John 
Corry 's second daughter, Sarah, in 1733. Mr. Alexander 
Auchinlech had three sons and a daughter, viz., the 
Rev. James Auchinlech, incumbent of Lisbellaw ; Anna, 
the wife of Mr. Richard Dane, of Killybevlin ; The Rev. 
John Auchinlech, rector of Dunboyne, father of Major 
Auchinlech, R.A. ; and Daniel, who married Miss Stack. This 
•^6 last gentleman was for some years agent to the Tyrone 
estates of my family. His eldest son, Thomas, is Major 
Auchinlech, Tyrone Militia, of Crevenagh House, near 
Omagh. His second son is Captain D. Auchinlech of the 
21st Regiment ; and his daughter is the wife of the Very 
Rev. Charles Stack, the present archdeacon of Clogher. 

Besides a son, Elizabeth Auchinlech had five daughters, as 
already mentioned ; and on them their grandfather, Colonel 
Corry, settled portions to be raised out of these lands. To 
Rebecca, the eldest, he assigned £300. To Margaret, the 
second, who had lived with him, and been brought up in his 
house from her infancy, he appointed £600 ; and £200 each 
to the three younger ones, Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth, to bear 
interest in each case at 5 per cent. Should they die before 
coming into the money, it was to be distributed amongst the 
survivors. One of these young ladies had an obliquity of 
vision. Her father having told a friend that he meant to 
leave her £1,000, whilst he only was going to leave another 
daughter £500, on being remonstrated with, replied that he 
loved his daughters equally well, but that the extra £500 
would make the one with the crooked eyes see straight. 

The trustees under Colonel Cony's settlement were 
further to pay any remainder of James Corry's debts, which 
might appear in a schedule to his will, for which his personal 
effects, or a sum of £1,400 for which John Corry was made 
answerable under the marriage settlement of 1701, might 
not suffice. James and John Corry, and others taking under 
this settlement, were to have a power to grant leases for a 
term not exceeding forty-one years or three lives, (to persons) 



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in possession and not in reversion, and they were not to 
take any fine exceeding one year's rent. The original 
endorsement upon this deed appears to me to be in James 
Corry's own handwriting. Colonel Corry had retained a 
power of revocation or alteration which he exercised on the 
13th March in the following year, so far as to reduce the 
interest on Rebecca's and Margaret's fortunes from £5 per 
cent, to £3 6s. 8d. per cent., and on those of the three younger 
ones to £2 10s. per cent. This interest was declared to be for 
their education and maintenance, and to be paid from the 
day after James Corry's death. If any one of them died 
before receiving her portion, it was to sink and merge in 
the inheritance. This deed, the reason for which possibly 
was the birth of John Corry's second daughter, Sarah, was 
apparently cancelled by cutting off the signature. 

It appears that on the 26th March, 1709, (which, I may 
observe, was under the old style, nearly eleven months 
earlier than 18th February, 1709, the date of the settlement 
before dealt with, which provided the Misses Auchinlech 
with portions), James Corry and James Auchinlech of the 
first part ; Lawrence Crawford and the Rev. Andrew Mitchell 
of Killyhevlin of the second part ; and James Moutray and 
Alexander Montgomery of Ballylech, county Monaghan, of 
the third part ; had entered into a certain settlement dealing 
with most of the freehold lands in the barony of Maghera- 
stephana, and also with certain leaseholds in which Colonel 
Corry had an interest ; which settlement he (Colonel Corry) 
had the power to vary. 

On the 9th October, 1712, he also, of the first part ; with 
Hugh Montgomery of Derrygonelly, and Lawrence Craw- 
fore of the second part, and James Moutray and Charles Stewart 
of the third part; entered into another settlement [which 
contained, inter alia, provisions relating to the raising of the 
Misses Auchinlech's fortunes,] of Derryharney, Aghalow, 
Coreclare, Mullaghkippin, Polagh (?Gola),Cloncarnan,Droles, 
Attacklanbryan, Corephat, Legatillid,and the Longford lands, 
and two messuages in Dublin occupied by William Poole, 
esq., and Sir Richard Levenge, with regard to which he 
appears to have had a power of declaring the true intent. 
This deed recited that the Longford and Dublin lands, Sue, 
were purchased in the name of John Corry in trust for James, 
and that John was bound for some debts of James. In it James 
granted (for £10) the property to the trustees named as 
of the second part, for the use of himself for life without im- 
peachment of waste; and then in trust to Moutray and 
Stewart for the use of John for life, with remainder to his 



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heirs male. In default of such to the use of Martha and 
her heirs male, and then to other daughters of John succes- 
sively and their heirs male. 

Martha was to marry only with the approbation of her 
father given in writing under his hand, and her husband 
was to take and use the name of Corry. Other daughters 
and their husbands, if they succeeded, must do likewise. 

If Martha married without proper consent, or her husband 
neglected to take the name of Corry, then her claim would 
cease ; and Montgomery and Crawford were to hold the lands 
to the use of the next daughter who should comply with 
the condition. 

Elizabeth Kirke was to have an annuity of £6 charged 
on the lands. 

The Misses Auchinlech were to have portions as provided 
in the previous settlement of 1709. Provision was made 
for the payment of any of Colonel Corry's debts over and 
above the £1,400 which John was bound by the settlement 
of 1701, to discharge. Leasing powers were limited to 
forty-one years or three lives, and no fine exceeding one 
year's rent was to be taken. 

On the 30th May, 1713, Colonel Corry, and his son John 
entered into a further deed of settlement, which recites that 
James is seized in fee (inter alia) of Drummack, Trenish, 
Finrah, Mullenascarty, Oghill, part of Garvoghill (these were 
not included in the deed of 18th February, 1709), Derry- 
harnye, Correphat, Legatellid, Attackonbryan, Droles, and 
one chiefry out of Aghalow and Mullaghkippin,in the barony 
of Magherastephana. Also that he possessed an interest under 
a sixty-one year lease from Charles Balfour, dated 14th 
February, 1649, at £13 a } 7 ear, from the 1st May then next, 
in Rossmacole, and Inisturke, Inishroughe and Manymakin 
in the same barony. On that Charles Balfour had, on 16th 
May, 1680, endorsed (on the back of the lease), a further 
demise for sixty-one years of Corgoul and Drasnye, at the 
yearly rent of £8 6s. 8d. It then refers to the deed of the 
26th March, 1709, between Colonel Corry, Mr. Auchinlech 
and others, and recites that James Corry then conveyed the 
freehold lands, inter alia, to Crawford and Mitchell, and the 
leasehold lands to Moutray and Montgomery in trust, as 
therein limited, with a power reserved to James Corry of 
revocation, &c. ; but that in case he should revoke, James 
Auchinlech was to have the full benefit of a mortgage 
for £480 therein mentioned. The deed then recites the 
further indenture of October 9, 1712 between Corey, Mont- 
gomery, Crawford, Moutray, and Stewart creating a term 



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of 999 years for raising portions for Rebecca, Margaret, 
Sarah, and Elizabeth, granddaughters of James Corry, and 
daughters of James Auchinlech. It says that there were 
several limitations in the deed of 26th March, 1709, and 
the same were settled in lieu of, and in full satisfaction 
of, the mortgage of £480 which James Auchinlech "has 
and then had." It further recites that James Corry is 
minded to revoke the said settlement, and does revoke it, 
and makes a resettlement — Crawford and Mitchell being the 
trustees — as to the freehold lands now particularly recited, 
to the use of James Corry for his life, without impeach- 
ment of waste ; and then to the use of John Corry for ever. 
As to the leaseholds, to his own use for life, if the lease last 
so long ; and after his own death, as to Inisturke, Inish- 
rourke, Corgole, and Rossmacoule, to the use of John 
Corry for the remainder of the term of the lease, subject to 
the whole rents of £13, and £8 Qs. 8d. payable to Charles 
Balfour. The Balfour family of Townley Hall, county 
Louth, once possessed an estate at Lisnaskea (now, I believe 
the property of the Earl of Erne), in this neighbourhood. It 
is not unlikely that Charles Balfour belonged to that family. 

As to the remainder of the leaseholds not limited to John 
Corry, they are assigned to James Auchinlech free of rent 
during the remainder of the term. James Corry then de- 
clares and appoints that the term of 999 years for raising 
the Misses Auchinlech's portions, and also the remainder of 
the term of sixty-one years of the unexpired leaseholds 
granted to James Auchinlech; and the settlement by the 
deed of 1709 of the remaining freehold lands (not specified) 
on J ames, the son of James Auchinlech, or any other eldest 
son of James and Elizabeth Auchinlech ; or failing them on 
the male issue of Elizabeth ; and the settling £38 6s. 8d. 
on James Auchinlech and his children as therein limited, 
and the yearly sum of £40 on Elizabeth (his wife) for her 
life, and the yearly sum of £40 amongst the children as 
therein limited, as being in lieu and in full satisfaction* 
not only of the mortgage, but also of any claim that James 
Auchinlech might have in right of his wife under any settle- 
ment executed after or upon the marriage of James Corry. 
[This probably refers to the settlement of 1679.] 

And in case James Auchinlech and his wife or their 
heirs do not abide by these conditions, Colonel Corry revokes 
all settlements in favour of his or Elizabeth's children, and 
settles the lands, &c, to the use of his son, John Corry. 
The mortgage for £480 was, I think it probable, in con- 

* Vide note on p. 121. 



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nexion with Elizabeth Corry's fortune. There is entered in 
Mr. Armar's list, a deed between Corry, Auchinlech, and 
Robert Hassard, declaring the uses of the said mortgage, to 
which no date is assigned, and which is missing. Also a 
(similar) deed of release from Mr. Auchinlech, James his 
son, and Elizabeth his wife. 

That Mr. Auchinlech did not forego his claim to his mort- 
gage is shown by the articles of agreement dated 7th 
August, 1734, on the marriage of James Auchinlech, junior, 
with Susanna, daughter of John Corry, of Lisanock, in the 
county of Fermanagh ; in which the deed of mortgage is cited 
as still in being, and as affecting the lands of Drumark, 
Finrah, Trenish Drumleagues, Drumerine, Crumye, Gort- 
garron, Drumbrack, Mullinascarty, part of Oghill, and part of 
Garvoghill, in the barony of Magherastephana, and that the 
interest was eight per cent. ; and provision is made for the 
contingency of Colonel Corry's representatives paying off 
the mortgage. The articles have been lent to me by the 
Rev. A. E. Auchinlech, of Car Colston, Notts, Mr. Auchin- 
lech's descendant. 

There was also a deed of mortgage, dated 5th December, 
1713, made between James Moutray, of Aghamoyle, and 
James and John Cony, of the one part, and Sir Ralph Gore 
of the other part. It recites John Corry senior's settlement 
of 4th April, 1679, and the articles of agreement of 23rd 
February, 1663, between him and Oliver Ancketill, on the 
occasion of the marriage of James Corry and Sarah Ancke- 
till ; and that it granted to Somerwell and Leslie, as trustees, 
the manor of Castlecoole, otherwise Castle Atkinson, in the 
barony of Tirkennedy ; and recites the various denominations, 
and also the tenement and dwelling house in Enniskillen, 
in the possession of Lawrence Dunberry, and another in the 
possession of Edward Picken, and two burgess acres in the 
possession of Robert Mackerran ; also in the proportion of 
Clabby, the following lands, Ramally, and Cornemucklagh, 
Moysnaght, Clabby, Drumcorr, Brackagh, and Beagh, in the 
barony of Coole and Tirkennedy, and 400 acres in Laragh, 
Cornecary, and Tullinemallrow, in the barony of Cremorne 
(county Monaghan). It recites a power after the death of 
John Corry senior, for James or John Corry junior, or other 
heir of John senior, to settle upon a wife, a sum, charged on 
the lands, not exceeding one third of the annual value, and 
£1,000 upon younger children. It goes on to recite articles 
of agreement between John Moutray and James Moutray, 
jun., of the 2nd April, 1697, and marriage articles of 2nd 
April, 1698, between John Moutray, James Moutray, and 



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Rebecca Cony of the first part ; Alexander Montgomery, of 
Bally leek, county Monaghan, of the second part ; and James 
and John Corry, of the third part ; and that in consideration 
of a marriage between James Moutray and Rebecca, and the 
settlement of Mou tray's estate, and reciting a power of 
charging, and that £600 was to be paid to James Moutray 
on or before 1st May, 1698, with interest from the 
time of the marriage at the rate of ten per cent., 
and £200 more within three months after John Corry 
should be married with the consent of his father; or 
if John should not marry within three years, that it 
should then be paid. It further recites the settlement 
dated 7th February, 1701, between James and John Corry, 
of the first part ; Stephen Ludlow and William Conolly, of 
the second part ; and Sarah, one of the daughters of William 
Leslie, of the third part ; and that in consideration of the 
marriage then to be solemnized, and of £1,000 to be paid 
by Sarah to James Corry, he conveyed to Ludlow and 
Conolly in trust, the manor of Castlecoole, the tenements 
in Enniskillen in the possession of Robert Picken, Widow 
Stevens, and John Norris, and the parks in the possession 
of John Beard ; and the manor of Clabby containing the 
lands of Moysnaght and Knockabritt, Mullaghsilligagh 
and Mullaghfour, Ramally, Camgart, Beagh, and Drumbrean, 
Drumcor with the mills, and two tates of Brackagh, also 
Mullaghknock, Tyralton, Drumderg, and Modena, Tallyna- 
pishin,* and a part of Falls — thirty-two tates in all, being 
parcel of Clabby — and also his interest in the lease of Clon- 
tillon, granted by Colonel Cohanaght Maguire to James 
Corry for a term of years yet in being ; also Laragh, with 
the corn mill, Cornecary, part of Tullenamabrew, Aghna- 
seragh, part of Limegar, one tenement in Monaghan in the 
possession of Dr. Loughrane, and two parks in the posses- 
sion of Phillip MacArdell, in the baronies of Cremorne 
and Monaghan ; also Bally clanare and Drumlinemore, with 
all the messuages, &c, in and near the town of Monaghan, 
and all lands held by James Corry in virtue of a lease dated 
31st May, 1680, made to him by Henry, late Lord Baron 
Blaney, for sixty-one years from the 25th of March last. 
Also the following Termons or church lands, Killenure, 
Gortgonnell, Drumcreeny (this name is obsolete, but must, 
I think, have been that of the two modern townlands of 
Derrymaheen and Drumcrin in and adjoining Castlecoole 
demesne), Derryvore, Derrybeg, Dromard, Towletts (now 
Tamlaght, Anglice, the Plague pit), Bally tarsin, Brockagh, 
Mullinaskea, Bally lucas, Cavancross, Cultaghs, and Clogh- 

* Tullynephin. 

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cor, which James Corry held by virtue of a lease from 
Chamberry Brabazon, esq., dated the 7th October, 1699, for 
eighteen years, from the 1st May then last past, together 
with the benefit of renewal and reversion. And as James 
Corry received £1,000 and no more as Sarah Leslie's 
marriage portion, therefore he might by deed or will en- 
cumber the lands for the benefit of his own younger children, 
or for the payment of his own debts ; but was to leave the 
estate free from all debts other than those pursuant to the 
powers of these presents. But this power of charging was 
not to prevent John and Sarah from receiving payment of 
their respective rentcharges. 

And whereas £100 out of the £800 had been paid by 
James Corry to James Moutray, and also all interest ; and 
whereas James Moutray had occasion for the remaining 
£700, and whereas Sir Ralph Gore was willing to advance 
the same at the rate of £6 10s. per cent. Now this inden- 
ture witnesses that James Moutray, for and in consideration 
of £700 paid to him by Sir Ralph Gore, at the desire and 
request ot James Corry, the receipt whereof he acknowledges, 
doth by and with the consent of James and John Corry 
testified by their being parties hereto, assign to Sir Ralph 
Gore the £700 [provided for by the deed ol 1698], and all 
his right and title in the same and in the lands ; and James 
Corry, with the consent of John, charges the land with the 
£700 to be paid to Sir Ralph Gore with interest at the rate 
of £6 10s. per cent. No person was to be bound to travel 
more than ten miles from his residence, for the purpose of 
making sure these covenants ; and Sir Ralph Gore acknow- 
ledges that this deed and warrant of attorney are for one 
sum of £800 and not for two sums. On the 5th December, 
1713, Sir Ralph Gore declares (by a declaration of trust) 
that the £700 was the proper money of J ohn Corry, and 
that his name was made use of in the deed and bond of 
attorney for the sole and proper use and behoof of John 
Corry. 

In the same year there was, according to Mr. Armar's 
catalogue, a discharge or release from James Moutray to 
James Corry in full of all debts and demands. 

In 1716 Colonel Corry made his will, which I subjoin. 
A codicil made subsequently was never executed : — 

In the name of God Amen, I James Corry of Castlecoole in 
the County of Fermanagh, esqr., being well advanced in years, 
and not knowing how Soon it may be the pleasure of God to 
Call upon me out of this Transitory life (which I hope in his 
mercy will be to a much better), I Do make this my Last Will 
and Testament as followeth : First I bequeath my Soul to God 



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from whom I live and have my being, and my body to be buried 
with my Ancestors in Decent form, with directions to my Son to 
erect for us a monument in the Chnrch of Derryvollan, Suitable 
to the qualety and fortune that is decended to him ; next I leave 
to the poor of my neighbourhood the Sume of Six pounds ^ 
annum for Seven years after my Death. I Do further will and 
bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth Auchenleck the Sume of 
thirty pounds ^ annum during her life to be paid to her for her 
Sole and Seperate maintenance at two half yearly payments from 
and after the day of my Death ; I further will and bequeath to 
her children the Severall portions hereafter mentioned viz. To 
my grand Daughter Rebeckah Auchenleck three hundred pounds 
Sterling to be payable to her the day of her marriage by the 
consent of her Parents and Uncle John Corry, Esqr. and Interest 
for the same at the rate of seven W cent untill it shall be paid ; I 
likewise hereby will and bequeath to my Grand Daughter 
Margarett Auchenleck for her marriage portion (She having 
lived with me and brought up from her infancy in my house 
and family) the Sume of four hundred pounds Sterl and Interest 
for the same at the rate of Seven "$ Cent untill her portion be 
paid for her maintenance ; I Do likewise Will and bequeath to 
each of my three younger Grand Daughters, vizt. Mary Auchen- 
leck, Sarah Auchenleck, and Elizabeth Auchenleck, two hundred 
pounds for each of their portions payable to them or either of 
them at the time of their respective marriages, and in the mean- 
time the Interest for the Same at the rate of Seven *$ cent for 
their maintenance whilst they are with their mother or un- 
married ; I likewise will Leave and bequeath to my grand 
Daughter Martha Corry the Sume of one thousand pounds 
towards her marriage portion, to be paid to her when she is 
married by the Consent of her father if he is then living, or by 
her mother if he is Dead before she marries. I likewise Leave 
and bequeath to my Grand Daughter Sarah Corry the Sume of 
Eight hundred pounds for her marriage portion, payable when 
she is married by the Consent of her father if then living or by 
her mother if he is Dead. I likewise will and bequeath to each of 
my two other Grand Daughters, vizt. Mary Corry, and Elizabeth 
Corry, five hundred pounds each, to be paid unto each of them 
respectively, when they Shall attaine the age of one and Twenty 
or be first married by the Consent of their father, or mother if 
She shall survive him, or Guardian if they are dead, at the time 
of their marriage or the marriage of either of them ; I likewise 

will and bequeath a Legacy of pounds per annum to 

Meabell Johnston for and during her life, who has Served me 
many years, and also a legacy of Six pound a year to Elizabeth 
Kirke to be paid to her for her sole and Seperate use during her 
life ; all which legacies and portions to be paid out of my per- 
son all Estate as far as it will reach ; and what it falls short to be 
paid out of that part of my Estate that is of my own purchasing, 

m2 



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being near Six hundred pounds ^ annum of Land of Inheritance, 
in the Countys of Fermanagh, Longford, Dublin, and Monaghan, 
besides Severall Considerable Leases, and a personal! Estate of 
horses, Cattle, Cows, Sheep, Mares, and Colts, household furni- 
ture, plate, and Severall Debts due to me, and rent of Land and 
arrears of rent and Severall other moveables to the value of 
about two thousand pounds ; I likewise having an allowance by 
the Settlement of my father John Corry Esqr. of charging that 
part of my Estate descended to me from him with the Sume of 
fifteen hundred pounds Sterl. for portions to my children or other- 
wise, I having borrowed and raised money for payment of my 
eldest Daughter's portion, who was married to Mr. Moutray, and 
for purchasing Lands to the value of Six hundred pounds *$ ann. 
and upwards, which I hereby Leave to my Son, together with 
great Improvements of building and planting, as well of houses 
gardens, Orchards, as a large dearparke, all well walled, and of 
great advantage as well as Ornament. And I Do hereby appoint 
and it is my will, that Sir Ralph Gore of Bell-Isle in the County 
of Fermanagh Baronett, and Hugh Mountgomery of Derrygonelly 
in the said County of Fermanagh Esqr., Shall be my Executors 
for the Execution of this my will and every part thereof, in 
manner and form as therein is expressed. In Testimony whereof 
I have hereunto Sett my hand and Seal this Sixteenth Day of 
May in the year of our Lord God One thousand Seven hundred 
and Sixteen 1716. Ja. Corry [/SW]. Signed Sealled Pub- 
lished and Declared in presence of uss the Last will and Testa- 
ment of the above named James Corry. 

James Crawford. 

Samuell Smith. 

Robert Johnston. 

Colonel Corry died in 1718, on the 11th of July; in 
which year probate of his will was granted to John Corry. 
As he must have been of age on 26th August, 1662, when 
his father granted him the lease in Carrickmacmea, he 
must have been at the time of his death at least in his 
seventy-seventh year. 

There is a portrait at Castlecoole which I believe to be 
that of James Corry. It has no name attached to it, and 
has been cut out of a larger picture, and made into an oval 
with a black background, and framed to match in point of 
size, a picture of a young man who I suppose to have been 
his grandson, and last male heir. These pictures have frames 
of George II's reign, when the grandson (as a grown man) 
lived and died, which match in pattern those of what are 
undoubtedly family portraits. There certainly was a picture 
cf "Colonel Ccrry" in the old house of Castlecoole, and 
although his son and grandson were both colorels, he was 



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" the Colonel Cony " par excellence. This picture repre- 
sents him as a stern determined looking man in the armour 
of his time. There is a basket-handled sword at Castle - 
coole, with the letters J. R. (Jacobus Rex) upon it. 

None of his letters, if he ever wrote any, have been pre- 
served. What is known of him is mainly either from the 
recitals in legal documents, from his commissions, or from 
the pages of unfriendly critics. 

With the exception of the second Lord Belmore, who 
came into possession as a young man, he must have owned 
Castlecoole longer than any of his successors, assuming that 
his father died in or about 1681. My own tenure, however, 
including the time of my minority, is now not very far 
short of his. 



CHAPTER XIII. 
JOHN corry, 1718-1726. 



John Corry's marriage with Sarah Leslie — Her own estate — Matty- 
mount and the Wells — John Corry elected m.p. for Enniskillen — 
Colonel of Militia — Articles for a race meeting — Receives another 
commission as Colonel in 1715 — Elected m.p. for Fermanagh — Mar- 
riage of Rebecca Auchinlech — John Corry exchanges Kilsallagh and 
Derrvharney in Magherstephana for Largy in Tirkennedy — Margaret 
Auchinlech's marriage — Lease of Killyreagh and Killybar to Mr. 
Crawford — His Estate Map — His Will — and Death. 

James Corry was succeeded in his estates by his only son 
John, who has been frequently mentioned in the preceding 
chapter. Born in 1666, he must have been, I think, the 
youngest surviving child of his father's first marriage, with 
Sarah Anketill ; and at the time that he succeeded to the 
estates was either fifty- two, or in his fifty-second year. In 
his youth he is stated to have served their Majesties King 
William and Queen Mary through the wars, both in Ireland 
and in Flanders. In 1701 he fulfilled the condition laid down 
in his grandfather's settlement of 1679, of marrying " a wife 
being his equivalent or equal in birth and fortune," in the 
person of Miss Sarah Leslie (probably the eldest) co-heiress 
of William Leslie, of Prospect, near Ballymena, in the 
county of Antrim. T think it probable that she was related 
to the Kev. Dr. John Leslie,* who was one of the trustees of 
the settlement, in which the expression occurs. Her father, 
who was descended from the house of Rothes, and her 
mother, had died before her marriage. She had inherited 
some property from her father. Her mother had devised to 

* Rector of Derryvullen 1662 to 1701. 



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her all her household goods, plate, and chattels by her will, 
which was proved 30th May, 1699, by her as sole executrix. 

Mrs. Leslie left all moneys which should fall due or 
accrue in any manner or way to her, by the death of the 
Lady Marchioness of Antrim, together with all such ready 
money or debts as should be due at the time of her death, 
to her daughter Elizabeth, who was living at Castlecoole in 
1721, and probably later, and was made an executrix of 
John Corry's will. Mrs. Leslie desired to be buried in the 
parish of Ballymoney, near her husband. 

From Mr. Armar's catalogue I gather the following in- 
formation about Miss Leslie's estate : — 

In 1637, the earl of Antrim and his brother Alexander, 
executed a deed of Culnermoney, &c, to James Hamilton, 
and to James his son. 

In 1660, James Hamilton of Cloughcor made a deed of sale 
to James Hamilton of Cloughmills, of Loughnehardvernith. 

In 1674, James Hamilton of Cloughcor made a lease for 
a year, and a release to, and passed a fine in favour of, 
William Leslie, of Culnermoney, &c. 

Mr. Armar notices a copy of James Hamilton, sen's., will 
and probate, and the following documents, viz. : — 

A claim made by James Hamilton to his freehold, before 
Oliver's (Cromwell's) Commissioners, and a decree in his 
favour made in 1657. 

A release, dated 1659, from John Hamilton, from any title 
he might have under the above will to said freehold estate 

A bond from John to James Hamilton, jun., for £2,000, 
to make good the said release. 

A release from John Hamilton for a legacy of £500 under 
the above will. 

A claim made by Widow Moore to Kilmoile, and allowed 
her by Oliver's Commissioners in 1667. 

A deed of sale from James Hamilton to James Ker, dated 
1669, of Top, &c. 

Mrs. Ker's administration to her husband, 1662. 

A fine levied (in 1676), 28 Car. II., by the co-heirs of 
James Ker to William Leslie. 

A lease and a release from James Ker to William Leslie, 
of Top, dated 1676. 

Also a lease from the Earl of Antrim, of the baronies of 
Dunluce and Glenarm to William Leslie, to conntevsecure 
Haltridge's debt, being £1,050. 

Miss Leslie's property also seems to have included the 
tithes of the island of Eathlio. 

Of this marriage there appears to have been for several 



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years only one daughter, Martha. I infer this because 
Colonel Corry's settlement of 1709 only mentions her 
amongst the children of John Corry, by name. Sarah, the 
next daughter, was probably born in 1710. Leslie, the only- 
son, was born in 1711, or possibly 1712. Mary was born in 
1712; and Elizabeth some time previous to the date of her 
grandfather's will, in which she is mentioned in 1716. 

Mr. and Mrs. Corry appear to have lived in the townland 
of Bonny brooke or Killynan, during James Corry's life, in a 
house which no longer exists ; and which must have been in 
full view of his (John's) brother-in-law James Auchinlech's 
house in Thomas Hill. He purchased the lease of this house 
from Lawrence Crawford (most likely the one of Carrow- 
macmea), who held it under his father James Corry. Not 
very far from the site of this house (which is now in- 
cluded in the Thomastown farm), and partly in Bonnybrook, 
but on the opposite side of the county road, and in Castle- 
coole demesne, is what is called a bottom, known as Matty- 
mount, with a brooke running through it. I used to suppose 
that Mattymount was a corruption of some subdenomination, 
until I heard last year, or the year before, that there is a 
tradition amongst the labourers that it was so called because 
in old times there was a big stone near a pool, which Miss 
Martha (or Matty) Corry used as a mounting block to get 
on her horse. On the opposite of the brook, on the side of 
the townland of Carrowmacmea, were two spring wells, one 
called Tobernasool, the well of the eyes, to which pilgrimages 
used to be made. The other was called Toberpatrick. The 
latter has yielded to the obliterating influence of field 
drainage, but the site of Tobernasool is still traceable, by a 
strong spring, which is too much for the drains. 

In that part of the field of Mattymount, which lies in the 
church townland of Ballylucas, there is on the ground a 
double ring, with one ring perfect, the other imperfect. 
This was I understand the site of a cockpit, which was 
frequented by the country people in the last century. 

It appears from the Irish Commons Journals, that John 
Corry was returned to serve as a member for the borough 
of Enniskillen, in 1703, in place of Sir Michael Cole, and 
continued to serve at intervals, alternately with a member 
of the Cole family for some years. His name last appears 
in the list of members preceding the session of 1711, in place 
of Michael Cole, esq. 

In 1705 his name, as before mentioned, is attached to the 
certificate of the losses by the fire of Enniskillen; together 
with those of Messrs. D. Kynd, Jason Hassard, and Allan 
Cathcart. 



168 

In 1708, Captain Jason Hassard was appointed to a com- 
pany in his regiment of foot. This regiment may have 
been raised under the authority of the Commission of 
Array of 1707 before alluded to. 

In 1710 or 1711, several of the gentlemen of Fermanagh 
and neighbouring counties agreed to certain articles for an 
annual Plate to be run for, which were as follows : — 

" At the *Puf hway in the county of Fermanagh. 

" Articles for a Plate to be run for every second Wednesday in 
May, for seven years, to be continued afterwards as the sub- 
scribers shall think fitt, the first Plate to be run for the second 
Wednesday of May next, one thousand seven hundred and eleven. 

"1st. Any horse, &c, may run for this plate that never won to 
the value of five pounds at once, provided, however, that the 
winning this plate do not exclude any horse, <fcc., from running 
for the same another year. 

" 2nd. Any horse that wins two heats and saves the distance a 
third heate, is to have the Plate. 

" 3rd. If three horses, &c, win each of them a heate, then they 
must run a course of two miles, and the horse, <fcc, that comes 
first is to cany the Plate. 

" 4th. No horse, <fec., to have any share in this Plate, shall be 
distanced any one heate. 

"5th. Every horse, <fec, to run three heats, each heat of four 
miles, and to turn the posts as the Course shall (be) laid out. 

" 6th. Every horse, &c, of fourteen hands three inches high or 
upwards, to carry eleven stone, and every horse, tfcc., under that 
size, to carry only ten stone and a halfe. 

" 7th. No riders to jostle except the two foremost, and no foul 
play to be used. 

" 8th. Every rider to weigh going out and coming in, at the 
starting and ending posts, and to be allowed one pound for 
wasting, or to have no share in the stake. 

" 9th. Every horse, &c, to start between the hours of twelve 
and two afternoon, and to be allowed half an hour to rub after 
every heat. 

" 10th. Every subscriber to have liberty to enter a horse, &c, 
for this Plate, the horse, &c, to belong immediately to him, of which 
he is to make Oath if required, or to pay four Guneyest Entrance. 

"11 th. Every person not being a subscriber that puts in a horse, 
<fcc., to pay four Guneys Entrance money, which money shall be 
run for, as the subscribers that are present, at the ru nnin g for 
the other Plate, or the majority of them shall appoint. 

" 12th. Every horse, (fee, that runs for this Plate to be entered 
and shewed upon the Course that day fortnight before they run, 
or pay six Guneys the same day before starting at the starting 
Post, which six Guneys are to go with the Entrance Money 
towards the second Plate aforesaid. 

* This word is difficult to decipher in the original. f SSe. 



169 

" 1 3th. Any three or more of the subscribers to be present at the 
time of entering and shewing. 

" 14th. Judges to be appointed by the subscribers before start- 
ing, to whom all disputes that may arise shall be left to decide. 

" 15th. The charges for preparing the course and furnishing 
Posts, &c, to be allowed out of the subscriptions for the first year. 
" 16th. Sir Gustavus Hume* is desired to collect the subscrip- 
tions for the first year, and to see the Course, Posts, &c, prepared 
to the best advantage. 

" 17th. Immediately after the plate is run for the subscribers 
then present or the majority of them, shall appoint some one 
subscriber to be a collector and manager for the ensuing year, and 
so in the same manner Collectors and Managers are to be appointed 
for the remainder of the seven years. 

" 18th. Every Collector is appointed to call in the subscriptions 
for his year, or to make a demand of each subscriber, either by 
letter or otherwise, before the first of January, or to shew suffi- 
cient cause for his not doing so, or else to be accountable for the 
money, that so a plate may be bespoke in time according to the 
subscriptions. 

" 19th. Every Collector to bespeak the Plate for his year, and to 
pay for it before running. 

" 20th. If it shall happen that any subscriber who shall be ap- 
pointed collector and manager shall be engaged any where at a 
distance so that he cannot attend, in that case he may appoint 
any other of the subscribers, who shall consent to act, in his stead. 
" 21st. That no subscriber or other person shall put in more 
than one horse, &c, or to have no share in the Plate. 

" Wee whose names are hereunder written do hereby promise 
and engage for seven years to pay a Guneye yearly to such Col- 
lector as shall be appointed by virtue of the above articles. 
" Signed, 
" Ralph Gore. John Cole. 

Gust. Hume. John Smyth. 

Jo : Corry. [A name nearly illegible.] 

Mer : Archdall. James Johnston. 

Guy Carleton. Henry Caldwell. 

Hugh Willoughby. . Walter Johnston. 
Hen : Green. Henry Mervyn. 

Henry Brooke. Audley Mervyn. 

Robert Sanderson. Wm. Ancktill. 

[A name undecipherable.] Will. Hamilton. 
John Crachton. Francis Johnston." 

Arthur St. George. 
Wm. Gratan. 

This document looks as if it had contained more signa- 
tures which have been cut off. The autographs are nearly 
all written in pale ink, and two or three are not easy to 

* Ancestor of the Marquis of Ely, who now represents his family in the 
county. 



1W 

decipher ; one is nearly rubbed out altogether. The docu- 
ment is interesting as showing who were the principal resi- 
dent gentry of the day in the neighbourhood. The Messrs. 
Mervyn belonged to the county Tyrone ; Mr. Ancktill to 
Monaghan; Mr. Sanderson, I suppose, to the county of 
Cavan. Castle Saunderson is in Cavan, on the borders of 
Fermanagh. 

I am not certain where this racecourse was. There was 
a racecourse at Enniskillen formerly, about where the 
Deny Railway, and the Omagh-road below it, now run. 
The lake, which I believe the present generation of Ennis- 
killeners calls the Mill Lough, was formerly called the 
Racecourse Lough, and the course, the site of which is 
marked on the Ordnance Map of 1834, was in use up to 
the early part of this century. 

The heats to be run, being each four Irish miles, would 
be equal to upwards of five and a half English miles each ; 
so that the horses, which would appear to have been low 
in heigth, must, in any case, have run to win, no less than 
sixteen and a half miles ; and, in case of three different 
horses winning each heat, nearly two and one-third mile 
must be added, making well on to nineteen miles. The 
Fermanagh horses were celebrated long after this for their 
endurance as hunters. Now comparatively few good horses 
are bred in the county. 

In 1715 John Cony received a commission as colonel of 
a regiment of foot, raised or to be raised for His Majesty's 
service in the militia of the county of Fermanagh, and to 
be captain of a company in the said regiment. This is 
dated the 17th September, 1715, and signed by the Lords 
Justices, Will : Dublin,* Jo : Tuam,t Kildare. 

Nothing more is heard of him until his father's death in 
1718, when he succeeded at Castlecoole. I observe that 
the coat of arms on the seals of James and John Cony 
differed somewhat from that now used by my family in 
consisting only of a saltire gules, omitting the rose ppr. 

John Corry also succeeded his father in the representation 
of the county. 

The certificate of his return, of which I have the original, 
runs thus : — 

" Hac Indentnr Fact in pleno Com Fermanagh Tent a pud 
Eniskellen in Com p e dict vicessimo primo die July auno quarto} 

* William King, a native of Antrim, having been Dean of St Patrick's, became 
Bishop of Derry in 1001, and Archbishop of Dublin in 1703. He died in 1720. 

t John Vesey, a native of Coleraine, having been Dean of Cork, became Bishop 
of Limerick in 1672, and -was Archbishop of Tuara from 1G70 to 1716. 

+ In the MS. the abbreviation here rendered " quarto" looks like '' rni." 



171 

t)om nostr Georg Dei gratia mag Brittan Franc Hiber Regio Fidei 
defensor &c, inter Robert Hassard ar Yic Com p e dict ex una parte 
et Guliet Balfour ar, Alexander Montgomery ar, Gualp Johnston 
ar, Hugh Willoughby ar, Joanem Creighton ar, Jason Hassard 
ar, . . e multab. pton Com p e dict et Elector au milit ad Par- 
liament in breve huic Tndentur Consub Specificat ex altera parte 
qui ut major pars * Com p e dicit tunc ibidem existen, Jurat 

and examinat secundi vim formam et effectum diversor statut 
inde edit and pro vis elegerunt Joanem Corry ar mil infra Com 
p e dict Commerant Gladio Cinct (Loco Jacobi Corry ar defunct) 
Milit habil et majis Idon et diseret dantes et concedentes p e dict 
milit plenam et sufficien potestat pro se et toto com p c dict ad 
facienclet consentiend hijs qua ad Parliament in diet brevi content 
de Com Concil rm diet Dom. regis nunc Hibernia contigerit 
ordinar suff negotijs in diet brevi specificatis. In cujus rei 
Testimonium uni part hujus Indentur penes diet Dom Regem 
remanem partes p e dict sigilla sua apposuerunt, alteri vero part 
ejus de Identur p e dict vie sigillum suum apposuit Dat die anno 
Loco supra diet. 

Signed Robert Hassard Ar. Vic. L.S. 

After the death of his father (whom he did not survive 
very long) there are a few memorials of him. John Corry 
seems to have gone on with the improvements at Castle- 
coole, as evidenced by certain pen and ink maps of portions 
of the property, the oldest of which, those of Bonnybrooke 
and the deerpark, are dated 1718; and are the oldest maps 
I have. The map of Bonnybrooke, shows the old road to 
Toppid Mountain, parts of which are still " on the county " ; 
and which was the road along, and over the tremendous hills 
of which, the judges and the bar travelled circuit. That of 
the deerpark shows a farm outside the wall, parts of which 
are still in the hands of a tenant bearing the same name of 
Wilson. 

In 1719 Rebecca Auchinlech, Colonel John Corry 's eldest 
niece, was married to Andrew, son of Edward Leonard, of 
Drumbrocas, gentleman. An indenture of settlement was 
made between Edward Leonard of the first part ; Andrew 
Leonard of the second; James Auchinlech and his daughter 
Rebecca of the third part ; and John Corry, of Castiecoole, 
and Oliver Ancketill, of Ancketill Grove, of the fourth 
part; whereby Edward Leonard conveyed to John Corry 
and Oliver Ancketill in trust, the lands of Drumbrocas, 
Lisnagool, Drumgoon, Carrigocassie, Corrigohenan, and all 
appertaining to them, in the barony of Magherastephana, 
county of Fermanagh. The trustees paid to Edward 
Leonard £200, out of the £300 left to Rebecca for her 

* Word indistinct — looks like " Johna." 






m 

marriage portion by her grandfather, James Corry. Edward 
Leonard retained a life interest in Drumbrocas and the two 
next mentioned lands subject to a rent* as regarded Drum- 
brocas ; and after his death his wife Roda was to have a 
yearly rentcharge of £15 out of them. The two other town- 
lands seem to have been settled on Andrew Leonard for life 
from after the marriage. Andrew Leonard was to have a 
rentcharge of £12 out of Drumbrocas, and Rebecca was to 
have a jointure, if she survived him and had male issue, of 
£21 a year ; or £30 a year if there was no male issue. The 
remainder in the lands, was to sons of Andrew successively. 
If there should be no issue male of the marriage, a term of 
forty-one years was created to raise a portion of £500 for a 
daughter or daughters, if any. Tf there were to be a son, 
and one or more daughters or younger children, there was 
to be raised a sum of £200 for the latter's fortunes. After the 
marriage the remaining hundred pounds of Rebecca's for- 
tune was to be paid to her husband. 

The settlement is dated the 20th of August, 1719, and 
witnessed by Robert King, Natt Irvin, and Robert 
Hassard. Oliver Ancketill signed on the 11th of Sep- 
tember in presence of Natt Irvin and John M'Dowell. 
Edward Leonard acknowledges the receipt of £200 on the 
23rd October; the witnesses are Andrew Leonard and Natt 
Irvin, whilst Andrew Leonard does not acknowledge his one 
hundred pounds until 8th May, 1721 ; the witnesses being 
Margeston Armar and Natt Irvine. He was then married, 
for he speaks of Rebecca as his wife. This legacy was in 
addition to the £300 which she had under her grandfather's 
settlement of 1709. 

I have a memorandum in a scrawling handwriting 
(scored across) which I transcribe as showing the prices of 
the day — 

"September 16th 1719 



Pd ye jJanans (?) 





1 


10 


To labours working att heay 





6 


7 


30 Labours att Turf 





5 


o 


for 3 penny weals 5 hundert 





1 


1 


moeaing ye medow 







6 


Lent te Madam Grattan 




11 


6 


a quarter of mutton 




1 


3 


a pound of Resons 







6 


28 Romp & Sirlin of Beef 




3 


3 


a quarter of mutton 




1 


3 


a Romp & Sirlin of Beef 




o 


10 


half a barell of weat 




6 


0" 


* Rentcharge. f Indistiuet word. 



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In 1720, Col. Corry made an exchange with Sir Ralph 
Gore, of two of the townlands which his father had purchased, 
viz. : Kilsallagh and Derryharne, in Magherastepana, for 
Largy, a large rough townland in Tirkennedy, between 
Garvary and Ballyreagh, in the manor of Coole, and Glas- 
drummond, lying between Ballyreagh and Toppid Mountain. 
This had the effect of consolidating that part of the estate, and 
at the same time considerably increasing its acreage, whilst 
Derryharney, and probably Kilsallagh, lay in to Sir Ralph 
Gore's property, being very close to his seat at Belleisle. This 
was done by a lease for a year at a peppercorn rent, dated 19th 
September, and a deed of exchange dated the next day made 
by virtue of the statute for transferring uses into posses- 
sion. This deed is the first, connected with the Fermanagh 
property which I have come upon, which has a memoran- 
dum of a memorial having been registered, entered in the 
Register Office in the city of Dublin, the 3rd day of May, 
1721, at 12 o'clock at noon (in Lib. 81, page 73, et Num 
18235); the execution was duly proved, and the registrar's 
fees were Is. 6d. B. Parry was the registrar. The witnesses 
to the deed were William Gore, Charles Grattan, and Robert 
Hassard. Sir Ralph is described as the Rt. Hon. Sir Ralph 
Gore, Baronet, Chancellor of His Majesty's Court of Ex- 
chequer in Ireland, and one of His Majesty's Most Honorable 
Privy Councill. Largee and Glasdrummond are estimated at 
four tates of land. 

In 1721, Margaret Auchinlech was married. The deed of 
settlement recites that Patrick Enery of Cullohill, county 
Fermanagh, and his son Thomas did covenant and agree 
with John Corry and James Auchinlech, their heirs, executors, 
and administrators, " that he the said Thomas Enery shall 
and will, on or before the said fourth day of July instant, 
according to the rites and ceremonies of the Church of Ireland, 
as by law established, marry and take to wife the said 
Margaret Auchinlech if she thereunto shall consent, and the 
laws of the Holy Church will permit. James Auchinlech and 
bis daughter on the other hand agree that she shall take on 
or before 4th July, Thomas Enery to husband if, &c, &c." 

In consideration of this intended marriage, Margaret's mar- 
riage portion of £400 left by her grandfather's will (and 
which was in addition to her £600 under the settlement of 
1709), was paid to trustees, Richard Hassard of Swanlingbarr,* 
county Cavan, and James Crawford, of Enniskillen. Enery 

* Swanlingbarr, said to have derived its name from three Englishmen named 
Swan, Ling, and Barr, was a sort of spa, a good deal frequented by the local 
gentry in the last century. 



174 

was also to pay £400, and the whole was to accumulate at 
interest during their joint lives ; and after his death, she 
was to receive in lieu of all claim for dower, £40 a year, if 
there was no issue of the marriage, and £32 if there was. 
After both their deaths, the money to be devisable amongst 
children if more than one. ' 

On the 4th July, Thomas Enery acknowledged having 
received from his father £300 which was (properly) payable 
to him after his father's death. The witnesses were Margetson 
Armar and John Enery. On the same day Thomas and 
Margaret Enery alias Auchinlech acknowledged the receipt 
of her £400, "left her by Coll. James Corry, deceased, 
and in full of all debts, accompts and demands whatsoever, 
due by him the said Coll. John Corry, to her the said 
Margaret." Margaret signed herself as " Enery " in a good 
bold hand; the witnesses being Margetson Armar and 
Ancketill Moutray. 

As this is the last occasion I shall have to mention the 
Auchinlech family for many years, I may add that I have 
no deeds of marriage settlement for the younger sisters, 
Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth. Mr. Armar, however, includes 
in his list a " Receipt from Mr. Scott for his wife's portion," 
and " Do. from Mr. Noble for do." This I take it refers to 
two of these young ladies, who had £200 each left to them 
by their grandfather, besides £200 under the settlement of 
1709. His wife (Mrs. Armar) left in her will many years 
afterwards, legacies to some Auchinlechs who had been her 
husband's wards, I believe, (on the authority of a member 
of the family in the present day) : and following them £40 
to " Sarah Scott," £50 to Elizabeth Jones, and £50 to 
Miss E. Jones ; Mary possibly was Mrs. Noble. Mr. 
Auchinlech had a lease of Mullaghthomas in 1726, and in 
1733 he acquired a lease also of Killyrea and Killybar. 
This comprised part of the land now held by and included 
in the demesne of his descendant Mr. Dane. 

I have a counterpart of the lease of Killyreagh and Killy- 
barr, then in the possession of Edward How, granted by 
John Corry in 1722 (6 July), to James Crawford, merchant, 
Enniskillen, for the lives of Ralph Crawford, aged about 
eleven, Henry, aged about nine, and Laurence, all sons of 
William Crawford, Esq., of Snowhill; at £10 a year. He was 
notto waste the plantations and timber trees on the premises, 
but might cut the sally hedges, and was to preserve the 
ditches till the sallies were well grown. It was agreed 
that if John Corry died, and his son, Master Leslie Corry 
should arrive at age, and that Mrs. Sarah Corry then wished 



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to live in Bonnybrooke, Killyreagh was to be surrendered 
to her for so long as she should live and should also occupy 
it. If she died, or had no occasion to occupy it during the 
continuance of any of the lives, it was to revert to James 
Crawford or his heirs. The timber and royalties were re- 
served, and the tenants were to grind at the manor mill, and 
the inhabitants to do suit and service at the courts leet and 
courts baron, and pay the scheneschal such leet money as was 
customarily paid in them. It was also agreed that if" Edward 
Darling's lease of Bonnybrooke, bearing equal date with 
these presents shall by the insolvency of the said Darling, 
his heirs and assigns, revert into the possession of the said 
John Corry, his heirs and assigns, that then and in that 
case the said James Crawford, &c, shall surrender the said 
premises to the said John Corry, &c, when by him or 
them demanded." I presume that Mr. Crawford assigned 
the lease to Mr. Auchinlech. On the back of it Mr. Armar 
has endorsed*, " Laurence died in ye year . Henry died 
in ye year 1742." 

In 1723 Colonel Corry had an estate map made, which, 
except the pen and ink maps before alluded to, is the oldest 
map in my possession (exclusive of the plantation maps of 
1609, of which I have copies). It is called "An exact 
map of Manor Coole, made for the Hon. Coll. John Corry, 
by Wm. Starratt, Philomoth, 1723." This is not quite a 
correct title, inasmuch as in addition to the manor proper, 
it includes Largy, Glasdrumman, Toppid mountain, and 
neighbouring lands, excluding the Clabby estate. The 
Loughside estate is also shown on it, but not in its right 
position. It is made to a scale, and is tolerably accurate ; 
and is useful for correcting other maps. Ballyreagh is 
divided into Near and Far Ballyreagh. Kedagh is divided 
into Kedagh, Rossyvullan, and Coneyberry. Drumrainy has 
disappeared in Agharainy, and the name Ballydrumbocas 
has also disappeared. Some one has marked in the mansion 
house with a pen ; and the site of Mr. Corry's house in Car- 
rowmacmea, is also shown. The fields in the church land of 
Killenure, which adjoined the demesne, and were probably 
included in it, are marked. The double ditches of these 
fields have, generally speaking, been levelled, but (nearly) 
every one marked on the map can now be traced on the 
ground ; and the rings of old ash trees which were originally 
hedge-row timber in these fences, and have been cut down 
of late years, are generally of such a number as to corrobo- 
rate this date. 

Behind the stables, &c, some scattered trees are shown, 



176 

but nothing to call a wood ; the place at this time must 
have been very bare. 

The last memorial of John Corry, prior to his death, is 
the following receipt : — 

" October ye 31, 1726, I have received from John Corry Esq., 
the sum of eleaven pound twelve shill : and sixpence, in full of all 
demands for slating his house, as witness our hands. 

Robt. Grieves, 
Being present, his marke 

Neale Cavanagh. Daniel E. Gribes." 

Endorsed, "Robert Gribes Discharge for slating Castle Coole 
house." 

From the inscription on a mourning ring it appears that 
John Corry died on the 11th November, 1726, aged sixty. 
His will, (a very verbose document), is to the following effect. 
It is dated the 27th October, 1721, and says that he is at 
present in indifferent good health of body, and of sound 
and perfect memoiy, &c. He resigns and gives and be- 
queathes his soul into the hands of his Creator, hoping for 
pardon of his sins through the merits of his Redeemer, and 
for a joyful resurrection at the Last Day; and his body to 
be decently interred with his ancestors, in the parish church 
of Derry vullen, in the county Fermanagh, at the discretion 
of his executors, 

He then recites his marriage settlement of the 7th 
February 1701, whereby the manor of Coole, containing 
forty-one tates of land, two tenements in Enniskillen, two 
parks near the town, the manor of dabby, containing 
thirty-one tates, also lands, tenements, and parks in the 
county of, and in or near the town of Monaghan, and also the 
termons and church lands of Killenure, Gortgonnell, Drum- 
dreeny, Derry vore, Derry beg, Drommard, Towlet (Tamlaght), 
Ballytarsons, Brackagh, Mullyniskea, Cavancross, Cavan- 
carragh, and Cultiaghs, being twenty-seven tates situate in 
the barony of Tirkennedy, were granted to Stephen Ludlow, 
and William Conolly, esqrs., in trust. He confirms this 
settlement, and recites that he is the right heir of his father, 
to whom the lands had been limited. He says also that he 
is seized in fee of several lands, &c, from his father, in the 
counties of Longford, Fermanagh, and the county of the 
cit} r of Dublin, and the suburbs of Dublin and elsewhere, 
which were purchased by his father ; and that he has also 
the reversion and remainder in fee of all the lands mentioned 
in the settlement. He devises them to Sir Ralph Gore, of 
Belleisle, bart., Samuel Madden, of Manor Waterhouse, 



177 

esq., and Elizabeth Leslie, of Oastlecoole, spinster, in trust ; 
and he constitutes his wife Sarah Corry, with them as 
his executors, and guardians of his only son Leslie Corry, 
and of his daughters Martha, Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth, 
until they come of age, or die before attaining full age, in 
the desire that they will take care of their estate and educa- 
tion ; but his dear wife is not to meddle with the rents of 
the premises belonging to his son under the settlement ; and 
as regards his leases for years, and other goods and chattels 
and personal property, he devises them to his executors in 
trust to sell them for so much as can be got, and thereout 
to pay his funeral expenses and debts. If they do not suffice, 
any balance is to be paid out of the rents of the land. 

Also whereas his wife is entitled under the settlement, to 
£200 a year jointure, and also to her own paternal estate ; 
nevertheless of his great love and affection for her he leaves 
for her use for life, all his plate and furniture, and after her 
death, he leaves them to his son Leslie if living, or to his 
heirs male and female, if dead ; and failing them, he leaves 
them to Martha or her heirs; and failing such, similarly 
in succession to Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth. 

He appoints that his wife may enjoy for her own use the 
house of Castlecoole, and the two tates of Kedagh, the two 
tates of Coneyberri.es, and the church lands now held and 
enjoyed therewith. [This would probably mean so much 
of Killenure Hill, &c, and Knocknacrina as was inside the old 
demesne fence, the Flax Field, Longhill, &c, and Gortgon- 
nell Hill], until Leslie comes of age. She is to keep in repair 
the house, out-houses, gardens, and improvements. From 
after his son comes of age, or if he should die before that, he 
leaves her the lease for lives of the dwell inghouse, out- 
houses, and gardens in the lands of Killynan, otherwise 
Bonnybrook, and the land and farm thereunto belonging, 
for her life, in case the lease which he purchased from 
Laurence Crawford should last so long. His dear wife was 
to pay the rent and keep the house, gardens, and improve- 
ments in order. After Mrs. Corry's death, he devises the 
remainder of the lease to Leslie Corry. He leaves to his wife 
his coach and six coach horses, with all things thereto 
belonging, twelve of his best cows which she shall choose, 
and all her rings, jewels, linen, woollen wearing apparel, and 
paraphernalia, personally worn or used by her. If her son 
charges her or the guardians, any rent for the use of Castle- 
coole, or the demesne during his minority then he wills that 
out of the rents of the lands devised to the trustees, they 
shall raise so much money as will pay the said rent and costs, 
and pay it to his wife or to the guardians as the case may be. 

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178 

He recites that he can, under his marriage settlement, 
raise £1,500 for younger children, and £500 more for any 
purpose he pleases ; and also that his father had left £1,000 to 
Martha, £800 to Sarah, and £500 each to Mary and Eliza- 
beth. He appoints, with 6 per cent, interest, £500 to 
Martha under the marriage settlement, and £500 out of the 
lands left to the trustees ; which will give her £2,000 in all, 
on coming of age or prior marriage, if she marries with the 
consent and approval of the major part of her guardians. 
But incase she were to prove disobedient, he leaves the £1,000 
to such of his daughters as shall be obedient ; and in that con- 
tingency he leaves to Martha the sum of £5. He also leaves 
her £60 a year for her maintenance and education until her 
portion shall be paid, to be paid half-yearly. Under 
similar conditions he leaves Sarah £500 (which would make 
her entire fortune £1,300), or £5 if she should be disobedient 
in the matter of marriage. Also £30 a year till she is six 
teen, and £50 a year after that, until her portion is payable. 
In like manner he appoints Mary £500 (which would make 
her entire fortune £1,000), or £5 if disobedient, and she is 
to have £30 a year until she is sixteen, and £40 a year until 
her portion is payable. To Elizabeth he similarly leaves 
£500 (making her entire fortune £1,000), or £5 if dis- 
obedient. She is to have £20 until twelve, until sixteen 
£30, and after that, until her portion is payable, £40. If 
any one of his daughters dies without receiving her portion, 
or one of them succeeds to the estate, then her portion is 
to be divided amongst her sisters, as are the legacies left to 
them by his father if still unpaid. 

As regards his son Leslie's education, about which he says 
that he is very anxious, he is not to be permitted to travel 
during his minority, but is to be soberly and virtuously 
educated within Great Britain or Ireland, as to his guardians 
shall seem most convenient, fit, and suitable to his temper 
and disposition. For his education and maintenance, he is 
to be allowed £60 a year until he is fifteen, £80 from then 
until eighteen, and £150 from thence until twenty-one. 

The trustees and executors may appoint and pay an agent ; 
as it cannot be expected that they will transact the affairs 
of his family, without some person employed under them. 
He leaves £30 to Charles Cony and £10 to William Cony 
(probably his cousins) to be raised out of the lands left to 
the trustees, and paid to them when out of their apprentice- 
ships. He leaves £10 to the poor of Derryvullen; £10 to 
the poor of Enniskillen ; and £20 each to his executors to 
buy them rings and mourning; these sums to be raised out of 
the rents. His executors are to distribute the money to the 



179 

poor. Any balance of his personal property is to help the 
above legacies charged on lands. The lands, after the legacies 
are discharged are to be held for the use of Leslie Corry dur- 
ing his life, with remainder first to his sons and then to his 
daughters in order ; in default of such to the use of his own 
daughters and their heirs similarly in order. Failing them to 
his nephew John Moutray, of Aghamoyles, county Tyrone, for 
life similarly ; failing whom to his nephew Ancketell Moutray, 
&c. Failing them, to James Auchinlech the eldest and only 
son of his brother-in-law, and his heirs ; failing all of whom, 
to his own right heirs. The above persons, if in possession, 
to have power to make leases for a period not exceeding 
forty-one years, and one, two, or three lives, in possession 
and not in reversion, for the best rent that can be obtained, 
and without taking any fine. All the above persons are to 
take the name of Corry if they succeed to the property. If 
anyone does not take the name, then he or she is to lose all 
benefit, which is to go to the next in succession. This is 
signed in presence of Charles Grattan, Francis Cashell, and 
William Barry. There are two codicils to the will. The 
first is dated 25th November, 1725, and recites that John 
Corry and Sarah his wife, and Sir Henry Echlin, and the 
Rev. Dr. Henry Leslie, Dean of Dromore, the surviving 
trustees of the settlement of William Leslie, of Prospect, 
county Antrim, had sold for £400 to the Right Honorable 
Marmaduke Coghill, of the city of Dublin, D.c.L., all the 
tithes great and small of the Island of Raghlin, in the diocese 
of Connor, to which Mrs. Corry would have been entitled after 
his decease for her life. He therefore leaves her in lieu of 
the annual value thereof, £20 a year for life charged on 
Drommach and Mullyniscar, in. the barony of Magherastep- 
hana. Witnessed by William Pole, Robert Irvine, and 
Thomas Cook, notary public. 

In the second codicil, dated 9th Nov., 1726, John Corry says 
that he is weak of body but of sound mind, and has con- 
sidered the circumstances of some of his younger children. 
He appoints his nephew Margetson Armar, who has attained 
the age of a man since he published his will, and of whom, 
he says, " I as executor and guardian took care since the 
death of his father," to be joint trustee with Sir Ralph Gore 
and Elizabeth Leslie, in the room of the now Rev. Mr. 
Madden ; and to be joint executor of his will and guardian 
of his children. He annuls the legacy of £20 to Mr. Madden 
and gives it to Mr. Armar instead. He then gives power 
to the executors to raise £1,200 out of the lands in Longford 
and Fermanagh purchased by his father, and devises £200 
out of that sum to his daughter Sarah, and £500 each to 

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Mary and Elizabeth, thus making up their fortunes to 
£1,500 each, on the same terms as in the original will. 
Finally he leaves £100 to his wife to be paid to her within 
two months of his death. This codicil is witnessed by 
William Leslie, Thomas Higginbotham, and Robert Irvine. 
Two days afterwards he died, as shown by the date on the 
mourning ring before mentioned, which was probably Mr. 
Armar's. Probate seems to have been granted on the 26th 
July, 1727, to his wife, Margetson Armar and Elizabeth 
Leslie. Signed by Dr. Marmaduke Coghill, Com. 

There are three pictures of John Corry at Castlecoole ; 
two (nearly duplicates) in armour, taken in early middle life 
apparently. The other is in a sort of flowing civilian dress, 
taken when he had grown stouter. He wore a full bottomed 
wig, and had rather a retrousse nose. He was succeeded in 
the representation of the county after the general election 
by Henry Brooke, esq. 



CHAPTER XIV. 

LESLIE CORRY, 1726-41, 



Leslie's account with Margetson Armar — Lines on Castlecoole — Family 
deeds — Marriages of Mary with Margetson Armar — and of Martha 
with Edmond Leslie — Leslie's will — and early death — A letter to his 
mother — Edmond and Martha Leslie assume the name of Corry — 
Their child's death in 1743 — Martha dies in 1759 — and Edmond in 
1764 or 1765— The Newtownlimavaddy Election in 1765 — A 
Longford Rent Roll. 

When John Corry died, his son Leslie must have been 
about fifteen years of age. The active management of the 
property was undertaken by his cousin and guardian Mr. 
Armar, who was himself about twenty-five. No better or 
more methodical person could have been selected. One of 
his earlier acts appears to have been the compilation and 
classification, of the family deeds in the catalogue to which 
I have so often referred, and without which it would have 
been by no means easy, to make a continuous narrative 
of the early history of the estates. This is endorsed " A 
cattalogue of the Deeds and Papers relating to the several 
estates, and to the family of Castlecoole, perused by me 
in Sep., 1727," and to this he made additions from time 
to time down to 1751, with occasional notes as to how 
certain papers were disposed of. Leslie Corry came of age 
in 1732 or 1733, according as he was born in 1711 or 1712. 
After this event had taken place an account for the 
minority was settled between him and Mr. Armar, which is 
of considerable interest and which I subjoin : — 



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October the fifteenth, one thousand seven hundred and thirty- 
three, the above account wherein the Debtor side is ten thousand 
five hundred and sixty-two pounds, fifteen shillings and two pence, 
and the credit side Nine thousand two hundred and fifty-three 
pounds eighteen shillings and three farthings, and the Ballance 
one thousand three hundred and eight pounds seventeen shillings 
and one penny farthing, was this day with proper \ ouchers, stated 
and allowed by and between Leslie Corry and Margn. Armar both 
of Castle Coole, Esqrs., and the vouchers delivered up to the said 
Leslie Corry, to whom the above ballance is still due. And I the 
said Leslie Corry do for me, my Heirs, Executors, and Administra- 
tors for ever, acquit and discharge the said Margetson Armar, as 
Executor to my Father, and Guardian to my Person and Estate, 
and all the other Executors and Guardians named in my Father's 
will, of all and all manner of claims and demands whatsoever, and 
of the above account and charge except the said Ballance. In 
Witness whereof, the said parties have hereunto put their hands 
and seals ye day and year above written. 

Signed and Sealed in ye Presence of us, 

Jo : Moutray. 
Galbraith Lowry. 
Will. Leslie. 

Signed, Margn. Armar, l.s. 
Leslie Corry, l.s. 

The above is (except the signatures,), in Mr. Armar's 
handwriting : a large oldfashioned hand. What follows is 
in Leslie Cony's, and is in a very good clerk-like hand. 

" In the above account Mr. Armar has made no charge for any 
expences and trouble, he has been at, in receiving my Rents, and 
managing my affairs ; nor for keeping horses and servants for mc 
at Castle Coole, or shoing those horses ; or Post Letters ; or for 
myself whilst in ye country, since I entred ye College ; which I 
here acknowledge with Gratitude and Esteem, as he has thereby 
answered ye great Confidence my Father reposed in his Friend- 
ship. 

"Leslie Corry." 

(< Lesly " Corry entered Trinity College, Dublin, October 
11, 1728, and graduated B.A. in 1732. I am not certain as to 
what was the Antrim lease mentioned in the above account. 

In 1733 Leslie Cony's second sister Sarah married Mr. 
Galbraith Lowry of Aghenis, as has been before mentioned. 
Their settlement is dated 26th July, 1733. 

It would appear that Mr. Armar continued to manage 
Mr. Corry 's affairs and probably to reside at Castlecoole. 
There is but little on record of Leslie Cony's ownership 
apart from Mr. Armar's management and I reserve that 






183 

management for a later chapter. I subjoin a poem which 
has been preserved, written probably by a friend of the 
family at Castlecoole. 

Lines on Castlecoole by the Rev. W. Thompson. 

Sir, 

Through dirty road and dreary air, 

I sallied forth to pious care ; 

Duty discharged, I ventured on, 

With tristfull Heart, like wretch undone. 

Anon, I spied thy glitt'ring Dome, — 

0, now, quoth I, i 'm just at home. 

My Heart exults, my Spirits flow, 

Ay, yonder's smoak — there Fire below ; 

And if the People ever eat, 

Where there is Fire, there may be meat. 

At Length arrived, I slowly light, 

Fearing lest things should not be right, 

When straight Dame Kirk, with smiling look, 

Seeni'd to accost me e'er she spoke — 

You're welcome, Sir, pray walk up here ; 

The Day is bad, you're cold, I fear ; 

That coat too — sure it must be wet. 

I'll have it at the Fire set. 

Here's a warm bed, and good dry sheets : 

I'll lay you in a wilderness of sweets ; 

The Seasons all around you glow, 

And Flora's beauties ever blow ; 

Of every Hue, through all the year, 

They shed their mingled Fragrance here. 

Sir, have you din'd 1 — or can you eat 1 

I chuckl'd much to hear of meat ; 

For three long nights and days I fed 

On six stale Eggs, and oaten Bread, 

Wretched Repast ; but is there ought 

In this fine villa to be bought 1 

Bought, Sir % I've pullets plump and fat, 

What thinks your Reverence of that 1 

But are they tender 1 No, Sir, no, 

My master never likes them so, 

And he, I believe you will allow, 

Knows what is very good. Well ! how 

Shall I get Drink % Why, Sir, I've ale, 

Not over hopt, nor over stale, 

A middling Drink. They hunted here — 

I in a Hurry brewed small Beer. 

But when you pass this way again 

I've liquor of a better strain. 

'Tis yet too young, but will be good, 

If ever malt I understood. 



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His Pan's too heavy. When in town 

I ordered George to send it down ; 

The Boy mistook — I fretted sore, — 

My gentle master said no more 

Than all was well. I ne'er did find 

In all my life so sweet a mind — 

A mind which anything can please ; 

Such is his Goodness, such his ease ! 

But, good Dame Kirk, enough of that ; 

Where is this fowl that is so fat 1 

You need not cook it over nice. 

Sir, you shall have it in a trice. 

The Pullet came. I fell to work 

As if it had been powdered pork. 

A Hen, so tough it would not down, — 

'Twas not the woman's fault I own. 

I tried to Drink, it would not doe ; 

I looked but simple, and she too. 

This Fowl's so tough t'would string a Fiddle ; 

And what is worse, your Drink is bad j 

I believe it was from Johnston's had. 

Blest Castlecoole, where pleasures reign 

Beyond what Bard could ever feign ; 

Long may plenty fill thy Board ! 

Be long with wines thy Cellars stored ! 

And, O ye Gods, with guardian care 

Plant all your angels round the Fair. 

But, pray, Dame Kirk. Sir, I have wine. 

The words had charm. O, then I dine. 

T drank a glass, and tried again ; 

The Pullet tender grew amain. 

I called for Beer — t'was special good. 

Madam, tough Hen's delicious Food ! 



CJETERA DESIDERAXTUR. 



Blessingbourne, 10th, 24, 1735. 

On the 9th and 10th February, 1735-6, Leslie Cony 
executed a lease for a year, and a release, previous to suffering 
a fine and recovery of the manors of Castlecoole and Clabby, 
and also the townlands of Mullyknock, Tyralton and others 
in that neighbourhood, in the barony of Tirkenuedv. 
together with the two tenements in Enniskillen, lately in 
possession of Robert Pickhen, Widow Stevens, and John 
Norris, and the parks lately in possession of John Beard ; 
also the lands in county Monaghan, of Laragh. with the corn 
mill, Cornecary, part of Tullynamabren, Aghnaseragh, part of 






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Semigar, one tenement in the town of Monaghan, formerly in 
possession of Dr. Loughrane, and two parks, formerly in pos- 
session of Philip MacArdell. The release (for the considera- 
tion of the sum of ten shillings) was to Alexander Nesbitt 
for the term of his natural life, " to the intent and purpose 
nevertheless that he, the said Alexander Nesbitt, by virtue 
of these presents, and of the said Act of Parliament, may be 
good and perfect tenant of the freehold, of all and singular 
the premises, so as a good and perfect common recovery may 
be had and suffered of and in the said premises, upon a writ 
of entry for deseizin in le post to be brought by Hamilton 
Trotter or some other person, to be for that purpose named 
against the said Alexander Nesbitt," &c, &c. The memorial 
to this deed does riot appear to have been ever registered. 
The denominations of the Fermanagh lands do not seem to 
vary from those in John Corry's time. The exemplification 
at the common recovery for the Fermanagh estate is dated 
29th February, 1737 ; that for Monaghan is missing. 

In 1736 Leslie Corry's third sister, Mary, married Mar- 
ge tson Armar, her cousin and former guardian ; and in 1738 
Martha, the eldest sister, married Edmond Leslie, esq., of the 
city of Dublin. Leslie Cony gave a bond for Martha's fortune 
of £2,(J00, bearing interest at six per cent., for which judg- 
ment was obtained in Trinity term, 1739. The trustees were 
Arthur Hill, of Bellvoir, county Down, and Margetson Armar. 

On the 10th December, 1739, Leslie Corry granted a lease 
for ever for £4 10s. a year to John Murray of part of Mullagh 
Monaghan. This must have been the park or parks near 
the town of Monaghan. This head-rent is the only vestige 
of the Monaghan estates in my possession, and is paid as 
for " Swan Park " by Dacre Hamilton, esq., of Cornecassa. It 
is, I believe, partly built over. " 

On the 11th April, 1740, the Duke of Devonshire, then 
Lord Lieutenant, signed a commission appointing Leslie 
Corry to be Colonel of a regiment of foot, and captain of a 
company in the said regiment, in the room of John Corry, 
esq., deceased, in the militia of the county of Fermanagh: 
and on the 17th May following the Lords Justices, Hugh, 
Archbishop of Armagh, Robert Jocelyn, Lord Chancellor, 
and Henry Boyle (the Speaker), appointed him to be one 
of the Deputy Governors of the County Fermanagh. 

His health, however, appears to have given way shortly 
after this ; for, on the 13th February following, 1740-1, 
he made his will, in which he says that he is " sick and 
weak of body, but of sound and disposing memory and 
judgment." He bequeathed to Margetson Armar, of Castle 
Coole, and his heirs and assigns for ever, the towns and 



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lands, &c, of Agharenagh (omitting to mention Drum- 
renagh), the Deer Park, Killihily (Killyvilly), North Carrick 
M'Mea, South Carrick M'Mea, Comburis (Coneyburrows), 
Rosswoland, Keadagh, Mulh MacThomas, Bonny Brooke 
(omitting to mention Killynan), Tullyharn, Glasmullagh, 
Drumcrow, Killy Rea, Kilhnamaddy, Killygrane, Kilsalagh, 
Garvary, Lesson, Largey, Near Baliyreagh, and Far Bally- 
reagh, Innisleague, Topped Mountain (omitting its name 
of Mullaghknock), Tyralton, Drumderg, Tullynephin, 
Modena, Drumcor, Corafat, Legihellet, Camgart, Lurgan 
clabby, Ramalin, Brackagh, Morfullaght, MuUagh- 
silligagh, Clentillon, all in the county Fermanagh ; also 
the towns and lands following in the county of Antrim, 
viz., Syconbeg, Sycon Irish, Upper Kilmoyle, Lower Kil- 
moyle, Baliywatics, Ardemulphin, Artegoran, Taghy and 
Taghyfad, Ballinginmore, Ballyginbegg, Coolerashakin, and 
Coollrin. He left to Galbraith Lowry, of Aghenis, and 
his heirs and assigns for ever, the following lands in the 
county of Monaghan, viz., the lands of Laragh, Cornecarrow 
and the Mill, Aghaseragh, a tenement in the town held by 
Mr. Ellis, and a park held by Colonel Murray. He left 
to his dear mother £500 ; to his sister Elizabeth £1,500 ; to 
Mrs. Montgomery, wife of Hugh Montgomery, of Derry- 
gonnelly, £200 (she was sister to Mr. Armar) ; to the Rev. 
Thomas Higginbotham £50 ; to Mrs. Tate £10 ; and to Mrs. 
Penelope Leslie £20. He left his plate to be equally 
divided between Mr. Margetson Armar and his sister Mrs. 
Martha Leslie, share and share alike. He ordered his debts, 
legacies, and funeral charges to be paid out of the estates 
left to Mr. Armar, except the £50 devised to Mr. Higgin- 
botham, which was to be paid out of the estate bequeathed to 
Mr. Lowry (his wife's brother-in-law). Lastly, he appointed 
Margetson Armar his sole executor, and devised to him all his 
chattels, to aid him in the payment of his debts, legacies, 
and funeral expenses. 

The will was witnessed by Hugh Montgomery, Richard 
Magennis, and Will Leslie. 

The will was proved 2nd June, 1741, by Mr. Armar ; 
the proof is signed " Nath. Bland, Commissary " lor Hugh 
Stone, Lord Primate, and countersigned " Ambrose Philip." 

Whoever drafted this will evidently did so without 
copying from former documents. There is an absence of 
the verbiage of John Corry's will. There is no mention 
of the manors, and some of the names of townlands are 
misspelt. The name of Clabby is omitted. How the Cany 
family became possessed of the Antrim lands I do not 
know. The Richard Maginnis who witnessed the will was, 






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I presume, a servant, whose name appears again more than 
thirty years afterwards. 

Leslie Corry died on or about 20th February, 1740-1, a 
week after making his will. 

There is a picture of a young man at Castlecoole, in a full 
bottomed wig, and a sort of flowing dress, which is framed 
to match other family pictures of the period, and which 
is assumed to be his. 

This is the last we hear of Leslie Corry's mother. There 
is a MS. poem addressed " To Mrs. Corry," amongst Mr. 
Armar's papers, which is undated, but probably was ad- 
dressed to her. It was covered by the following letter : — 
To Mrs. Corry. 

Madame, — As I know your tenderness to be such that you 
cherish every thing that is under your care, so I beg leave to 
commit the following Table to your protection ; the only design in 
the writing of it was, the hopes of giving you some entertainment, 
which if it in the least answer, it will give great pleasure to, 

Madame, your most obedient and very humble servant, 

E. M. 
A Table on the words Female Beauty, Love, Song, Music, 
Dancing, Politeness, Good Sense : — 

In Nature's Bloom, when time was young, 
Nor yet was known or dance or song, 
Syrinx in sweet recess was laid ; 
Pan spied the beautious virgin maid : 
The maid, unconscious of her charms, 
The shepherd's heart unweeting warms. 

And so on for about nine pages. 

On the 25th May, 1747, Mr. Armar sent to Mr. Lowry 
" by his Lady, " two documents relating to the tithes of 
Raghlin, sold to Dr. Coghill, as mentioned in John Corry's 
will ; also the will and probate of William Leslie, and his 
deed of settlement dated 1688. From this I presume that 
Mrs. Corry had then lately died. 

With Leslie, the family of Corry of Castlecoole became 
extinct in the male line. Martha Leslie and her husband 
succeeded to the lands in the barony of Magherastephana, 
the estate in Longford, and the tenements in Dublin ; and 
in accordance with the will of her father, Colonel John 
Corry, they assumed that name, adding it to that of Leslie. 
Martha thus became the head of her family. 

On the 29th March, 174-2, an indenture was entered into 
between Margetson Armar, Mary Armar; and Elizabeth 
Corry, of the first part; Edward Matthewes, of Newcastle, in 
the county of Down, of the second part ; and Edmond and 



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Martha Leslie Corry, of the third part ; which recited that 
James Corry, grandfather of Martha, Mary, and Elizabeth, 
had by his will dated the 16th March, 1716, devised to 
Mary and Elizabeth the sum of £500 apiece, to be paid to 
them at the age of twenty-one or marriage ; charged on the 
lands, &c, in Longford, Fermanagh, and Dublin, which 
were his own purchases, and which he had devised to his son, 
John Corry, since deceased, subject to the said legacies or 
portions, and to other legacies; and that James soon after had 
died, seized in fee and possessed of the certain lands afore- 
said ; and that John (in his turn) had bequeathed the said 
lands to trustees for the use of his only son, Leslie, since 
dead without issue, and his heirs ; failing whom to Martha, 
his eldest daughter. It further recited that John Corry by 
a codicil to his will dated 1726, bequeathed to Mary and 
Elizabeth £500 apiece, over and above the legacies mentioned 
to be bequeathed to them by his will, and provided that 
the trustees should raise the same out of the afore- 
mentioned lands, and that the same should bear interest and 
be payable in the same manner as the portions left them by 
his will were appointed to be paid and bear interest ; and 
that Mary Armar had attained the age of twenty-one in or 
about 28th December, 1733, and Elizabeth on or about 24th 
November, 1738 (sic in orig., but quere 1736), and that 
Margetson Armar had intermarried with Mary some time 
in 1736, and became entitled in her right to the two 
several sums of £500, provided as aforesaid ; and that 
Margetson and Mary Armar and Elizabeth Cony, had, with 
the consent and approbation of Edmond and Martha Leslie 
Corry, agreed, for the consideration thereafter expressed, to 
make over to Edward Matthewes, the said sums (£2,000 in 
all), to which they were entitled ; now this indenture 
witnessed, that in consideration of £1,000 paid to MargeUon 
Armar and £1,000 to Elizabeth by Edward Matthewes, and 
for other considerations, they made over to Matthewes the 
several sums of £500 under James Corry 's will, and also 
the sums of £500 under the codicil of John Cony's will. 

This deed is signed by 

Margetson Armar. Ed. Matthewes 
Mary Armar. E. Leslie Corry, and 

Eliza Corry. Martha Leslie Corry. 

On the following day there was a further indenture between 
E. Matthewes of the first part; Arthur Hill, of Belvoir, county 
Down,and Margetson Armar, of the second part; and E. Leslie 
Corry of the third part ; which referred to the marriage 
settlement of Edward and Martha Cony, dated 30th January . 



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1738, made between Edmund Leslie, of the first part; Martha 
Corry of the second part ; Peter Leslie, of Galgorn, of the 
third part ; and Arthur Hill and Margetson Armar of the 
fourth part; and recited that it was provided that £2,000, 
the marriage portion of Martha, should be vested in Hill 
and Armar or the survivor of them, who should invest it, 
with the approbation of Edmund Leslie, in good security, 
without risk to themselves, and should apply the principal 
and interest for the benefit of the daughter or daughters, 
younger son or younger sous, of the marriage, or failing 
such for the benefit of Edmund Leslie himself. That 
Leslie Corry had given a bond to secure the £2,000 to the 
trustees with regard to which judgment had been obtained 
in Trinity Term, 1739. That Leslie Corry was dead, and 
that Edmund and Martha were now seized of the lands in 
the county of Longford, of Clenbolt, Cahana, Gertinoran, 
Ballagh, Clanralla, Faghy, Knockmartin, Upper and Lower 
Leitrim, Corrygranny, Dring, half Aghacordrinan, Claira, 
Carrow M'Gourke, and Geisha, at and near Longford ; also 
Aghamore, Aghnaloo, *Clenacarnan, *Druinmack, Finra, 
Trenish, *Drumcramp, *Droles, *Drumerin, *Drumleaghs, 
*Gortgarran, Crumise, Legatillad, Comfat, Attelairbriari, 
*Mullinascarty, and *Drunihack, in the county of Fer- 
managh. [Those marked with a (*) correspond with denomi- 
nations shown on Colonel John Corry 's map of 1723 as 
forming the Loughside estate.] Also lots Nos. 94 and 95 in 
Queen-street, Oxmantown, Dublin, held in fee-farm under the 
Blue Coat School. All the above were charged with two 
sums of £500 each, payable to Mary Armar, and the same to 
Elizabeth Corry, making £2,000 in all, which were assigned 
to the said E. Matthewes the day before these presents. 

The lands were of the annual value of £550, and would be 
ample security for Martha's£2,000, which bore interest at the 
rate of six per cent. ; and Edmond Leslie Corry, thinking that 
it would be of great advantage to his younger children to 
have his wife's fortune placed at interest upon the said 
securities, had prevailed on Matthewes to agree, on the 
payment of £2,000, to assign over his said securities to Hill 
and Armar. Matthewes, therefore, assigned the sums of £500 
charged on the lands, making in all £2,000, to them. 

Mr. Armar has made a memorandum in his catalogue of 
having handed over sundry deeds to Captain Corry in 
October, 1743, relating to his wife's property. 

As far as I know, Martha Leslie Corry had only one 
child, who died young. In the Corry vault, in Derry- 
vullen old churchyard (which was under the church), is a 
piece of lead coffin, bearing the inscription, " Master Leslie 



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Corry died 11 March, 1743." A piece of coffin board has 
the initials in gilt nails, " E. L. C," which leads me to suppose 
that the child's name was Edmond. 

There is a picture of Mrs. Leslie Corry, at Castlecoole, 
taken probably when between thirty and forty years of age. 
She is dressed in a yellow gown, of a fashion not unlike 
that of the present day. She died before her husband, in 
or about 1759. Captain Leslie Corry was elected M.P. for 
Newtownlimavady in 1741, in the place of Thos. Medlicot, 
deceased, and sat until his death in 1764 or 1765. 
When the vacancy caused by his death* came to be filled, 
a Mr. Magan was returned, against whom a petition was 
presented by Captain John Staples, who complained of an 
undue return. This was referred by the House of Commons 
to the Committee of Privileges and Elections, from whom 
Mr. Pery reported, on the 4th December, 1765, that they 
had examined William King, a burgess of the borough of 
Newtownlimavady ; who had said, that the 2nd of Novem- 
ber last was appointed by the Provost, Mr. Thomas Smith, 
for the election. The Provost went into the town-house a 
few minutes before eight o'clock, and a minute before, or 
a minute after eight, he ordered the court to be opened. The 
witness said that he had objected, on the ground of its 
being a very early hour, and he knew that Mr. Staples was 
in the neighbourhood, and with intent to offer himself as a 
candidate. The Provost took no notice. Whereupon the 
witness had said that he knew that the Provost had been 
served with notice before seven o'clock that morning, that 
Mr. Staples would attend the election. The Provost neither 
acknowledged this to be true, neither did he deny it. But 
he proceeded to the election. 

Colonel Burton proposed one Arthur Magan, and the 
witness proposed Captain John Staples. Three persons 
only voted for M agan, and Robert Johnson and witness had 
voted for Staples. The Provost declared Magan elected. 
The five votes were polled in one minute. The whole pro- 
ceeding did not exceed four minutes. When the Provost 
declared Magan elected, witness said it could not be so, as 
not a good burgess was present but the two who had voted 
for Staples, besides the Provost. The Provost asked if the 
members present would sign the books. Mr, Johnson and 
witness refused; but the Provost and the three persons 
who had voted for Magan signed. The Provost called to 
the Sergeant to adjourn the court ; the witness twice 

* Mr. E. L. Corry appears to have died between the prorogation in 1764 and 
the reassembling of Parliament in 1765. 



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objected. He said that he knew that Mr. Staples and 
more burgesses were expected in town for the occasion. 
The Provost said that Colonel Burton was a Member of 
Parliament, and must go to attend Parliament. Seven 
minutes were consumed in all by the proceedings, and 
three minutes more in drinking a glass of wine. 

Captain Staples arrived ten minutes afterwards with 
John M'Causland, a burgess, who said he came to vote for 
Staples, and had never known so early an election, although 
he had been a burgess for thirty years. Captain Staples 
went, by the advice of some of his friends, to the town- 
house, but found the door shut. Witness went to the 
inn adjoining the town-house to get the key of another 
door. The man of the inn said that the key had been 
taken from him some time before. The Provost had been 
Provost for ten years, and he had never before held an 
election before ten o'clock. Witness said he had no par- 
ticular objection to make to the voters who had voted for 
Magan, but he objected in general to them. 

The Committee reported that Mr. Magan was not duly 
elected. A new writ was ordered to issue, and Mr. Staples 
was returned. 

After Captain Leslie Corry's death, Sarah Lowry became 
the head of the family, and succeeded to her sister's estates 
in Longford, Fermanagh, and Dublin ; and she, with her 
husband, and son, Armar Lowry, and her youngest daughter 
Mary, assumed the additional name of Corry. 

The following is a rent roll and account of the Longford 
estate at the time of Leslie Corry's death. 

A Rent Roll of Longford Estate for halfe a year ended 
All Sts. 1740. Inclusive and (o/) a former arrear. 





Arrear due 


Haifa 




Whereof 

rec d 
5 th June, 

1741. 


Arrear 


Denominations. 


1 st Jan y 


year's rent, 


Totalis. 


due 17 th 




1740. 


alls 18 , 1740. 




June, 1741. 


Clenbolt, . 


23 9 7 


27 10 


50 19 7 


50 19 7 




Lower Leytrim, . 


— 


10 


10 


10 


— 


Claurallagh, 


5 10 


30 


35 10 


35 10 


— 


Cahana, 


— 


11 


11 


11 


— 


Gortinoran, 


— 


17 10 


17 10 


17 10 


— 


Upper Leytrim, . 


20 


10 


30 


30 


— 


Ballagh, 


— 


4 


4 


4 


— 


Corrigrany, . 


55 3 4 


12 


67 3 4 


60 5 7* 


6 17 8i 


Knockmartin & Faghy, 


11 12 1 


25 


36 12 1 


36 12 1 


— 


Gillshagh, . . . . 


9 10 


22 10 


32 10* 


22 10 


9 10 


Dring, .... 


22 5| 


16 


38 5£ 


38 5£ 


— 


Clmra, 


29 11 4 


10 


39 11 4 


39 11 4 


— 


-Aghacordrinan, . 


14 3 6 


6 


20 3 6§ 


20 3 6| 


— 


Carrow M'Gorke, 


2 14 4| 


3 


5 12 4£ 


5 12 4£ 


— 


£ 


193 12 8£ 


204 10 00 


398 2 8J 


381 15 00 


16 07 8£ 



* Sic in orig. 



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Below is written by Mr. Armar :- 

" Received at May, 1740, 

November, 1740, 



Per. 



Com. 



£ 8. d. 

117 16 9 

6 12 6 

3 5 

28 12 6 

5 9 8 

190 14 9 

352 11 2 

Credr. 



10 



12 

19 

3 



d. 





2 

H 

3 ^ 29 11 4 



1 15 
1 11 8 



Qt. Rent paid by the Tenants in Barrony of Longford £ s. d. 

as ffollows, Mr. Dempsey pd. the — 

Easter & Michms. 1740, . 
Clenbolt the Easter & Michs. 1740, 
Gillshagh the Michms. 1740, 
Dring the Eastr. & Michms. 1740, 
Olinra the Eastr. & Michms. 1740, 
By two years rent of Carrowmcgorke 

ended Michms. 1740, 
By 2 J years Qt. Bent of Aghacordrinan 

Michms. 1740, 

By an Acco*. of Notes Taken for the Ar°. June 1741, 
By an Account of Apprized Catle sent ye 8th June 

1741, . 

By Cash pd. yr. Overseer Wood as ^ his receipt 

11th June 1741, 

By Bpp. Story's Alls' 8 . 1740 Rent of Barah & 

Drumbulchan, 28 

By Cash allow' d ffath n . ffarrell M'Kernan which 

he laid out on the Possession of Dring more than 

formerly allowed, ...... 

By Mr. Richd. Dempsy of Longford's Bill on Patt 

M'Cabe in Dublin payable 1st June 1741, 
By Agents' & Bailiffs' ffees including an additional 

driver, ........ 

By cash paid a man for driving the apprized cattle 

to Castlecoole, ....... 



71 4 5£ 
6 12 6 



3 5 



12 6 



4 6 



9 8 



6 15 5 



4 



101 



Abeat d . the Tenants of Corrygrany £6 per ann. for 
their improvements since the commencement of 
their Lease being 6J years, .... 



By cash due to Balce. this acco'., . 



152 3 



39 

191 3 

190 14 9 



381 15 
The above is a Just and True Account, June 18th 1741. 

Signed, Axdw. Crawford. 



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The foregoing is an account and rental of an estate for 
which only £985 had been paid within fifty years, and 
which is now returned in the list of owners of land as valued 
by Sir Richard Griffith at £2,581 per annum, 



CHAPTER XV. 

MAKGETSON ARMAR, 1741-1773. 

Inherits the Antrim Estate — Is owner of the Blessingbourne Estate — 
His family history — Rentals, and memoranda — Mr. Thompson's poem 
— Dr. Dunkin's letters to Lord Chesterfield and Mr. Armar — Mr. 
Finlay's poems — "iEdis apud Enniskillen" — Mr. Armar's other papers 
— Letter of the Lords Justices to the Duke of Newcastle, Prime 
Minister — Judgment of Lord Chancellor, Lord Bowes, in Lord Ely's 
case — Mr. Armar purchases Sir Ralph Gore's Church Lands Estate — 
His Will and death 

Leslie Corry, as we have before seen, bequeathed the 
Castlecoole and Clabby estates, as well as certain townlands 
in Antrim, to his cousin and brother-in-law Margetson 
Armar. The Antrim lands, were probably those mentioned 
under the head of " the Antrim lease " in the account stated 
in 1733 between Leslie Corry and Mr. Armar. They ap- 
pear to have been at that time of but little value ; which 
might possibly have been accounted for by a considerable head 
rent ; six years' profit during the minority only amounted 
to £297 13s. 9cl. As I find no further trace of this small 
estate, I think it probable that Mr. Armar sold it. 

In 1737 I find him in possession of an estate called 
Blessingbourne, which is situate on the borders of Tyrone 
and Fermanagh, and which had belonged to Sir Henry 
Tichbourne. 

Margetson Armar was son of the Ven. " William Armar,* 
who entered Trinity College, Dublin, as a Sizar, 13th Feb- 
ruary, 1671. He became a scholar in 1675, and graduated 
B.A. in the spring of 1676. In 1691 we find him Precentor 
of Connor, and as such Rector of Ballymoney, in which 
parish Leslie Hill is situate. In September, 1694, he 
resigned that preferment, and became Archdeacon of Connor 
by exchange with Philip Matthews." I have not been able 
to find any mention of his wife, but I think that she must 
have been a sister of Mrs. John Corry. 

"John Margetson, M.D., was Regius Professor of Physic 
in the University of Dublin in 1670. A James Margetson 

* Dean Reeves — information supplied by. The Dean writes under date July 
1st, 1881. " When in Dublin I happened to see and note the following: — 'Rev. 
Wm. Armar, of Bally brittan, Co. of Antrim. Will dated 1707.' It is preserved 
in the Record Office, Four Courts, among the Prerogative Wills, but I had not 
time to look at it." 



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graduated B.A. in 1676, and M.A. in 1679. A John Mar- 
getson graduated B.A. in 1676 Margetson appears as a 
Christian name in the Caulfeild family, owing to an intermar- 
riage with the Archbishop's* daughter; whose son also 
(Major John) was married to Alice, daughter of the first 
Viscount Charlemont." 

I have a manuscript medical book at Castlecoole entitled 
Catalogus Morborum, in which is written the names 
"William Armar, 1693." 

"William Armar's son " Margetson, was born in 1700 in 
the county of Antrim. (He was not quite of age when 
John Corry prepared his will dated 27th October, 1721, 
but was fully so, for the codicil of the 9 th November, 1726. 
( Of whom,' (says John Corry), ' I as executor and guardian 
took care since the death of his father ' [which was in 
1707]. " He was educated at Enniskillen school by Mr. 
Grattan, the master thereof, and May 7, 1716, at the age of 
sixteen, he entered Trinity College as a Fellow Commoner. 
He graduated BA. in Dublin University, spring com- 
mencements, 1720." 

From a name written in an old book at Castlecoole, I 
infer that he had a brother Richard. His sister Elizabeth, 
married Hugh Montgomery, esq., of Derrygonnelly, county 
Fermanagh, and from her is descended Huorh de Fellenburcdi 
Montgomery, esq., of Blessingbourne. As we have seen, 
Mr. Armar managed the Castlecoole estate gratuitously, not 
availing himself of the power reserved in his uncle's will to 
appoint and pay an agent, during the minority of his cousin 
Leslie; and as he is always described as " of Castlecoole," for 
this and other reasons I suppose him to have continued to 
manage it until his cousin's death in 1741. His own 
ownership, added to these two terms made up a period of 
nearly forty-seven years, during which he seems to have 
been unremitting in his efforts for the improvement of the 
estate and demesne. The latter he considerably enlarged, 
and although many of his improvements have become out 
of date, and in the course of more modern alterations been 
removed, yet the traces which remain in all directions show, 
that at a period when under drainage was unknown, and arti- 
ficial plantations few, the works which he executed in the way 
of large double fences, with trees planted on the top of the 
banks, must have been very judicious and useful, as the}' 
certainly were substantial, in an unsheltered country such 
as Fermanagh must have been a century and a half ago ; 

* James Margetson, a native of Yorkshire, having been Dean of Christ's 
Church, became Archbishop of Dublin in 1660. and of Armagh in 1663. He 
died in 1678. 



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when all, or nearly all, the cattle had probably to winter in 
the fields; and must moreover have been the means of 
giving a vast amount of employment to the poor people of 
the neighbourhood. 

He purchased from Constantine Maguire, esq., Tempo, 
on the 23rd July, 1719, for £100, the farm, townland, or 
tate, called Clentillon, then held by Josias Armstrong or 
his under tenants, a yearly rent of £3 being reserved. 
William Leslie is one of the witnesses to this deed. On the 
back is endorsed, in Mr. Armar's writing : — 

" Deed in Fee from Const. Maguire to Margn. Armar of ye 
Farm of Clentillon. Rent 3 pds. pr. anm." 

And then lower down : — 

" I bought ye Chief Rent and sent ye deed to Mr. Nesbitt by 
Mr. Higinbothani, September ye 28th, 1741, to register it." 

As Leslie Corry mentions Clentillon in his will, it is pro- 
bable that Mr. Armar originally bought it for him, during 
his minority. 

In 1734 a pen and ink map of Derrymakeen. now part of 
the demesne, but then on the opposite side of the Dublin- 
road, was made for Leslie Corry. This map shows that the 
old road leading to Bellevue and the Ring, did not then 
exist, at any rate otherwise than as a mere track. There is 
also a map of the parks of Killenure between the demesne 
and the town of Enniskillen. 

The following memorandum extracted from the first page 
of a rent book, and which is in Mr. Armar's own hand- 
writing, is interesting as showing the small return given 
by the land, with the farming of the period : — 

" 1735, 1 sowed 19 Barls. of Oats which produced 87 Bar : and 
three But. 19 Barrels of which 3 But, I sowed in Febry., 1736. 
Ye Horses and Poultry eat 21 Bar : ye Rem dr. being forty seven 
Barrels produced 9 Barrels of Shillen." 

Then in 1737 I find the following :— 

"For: Doorasss in to have from May, 1736, for his wages 
4 pds. pr. annm. a house, garden, one acre of land and two cow's 
grass — 

£ s. d. 
May ye 22nd, 1737 — paid him by one Cow and 
in exchange between a dry 
C. and a Springer, . 117 

paid him, . . . .068 

02 



196 



£ s. d. 



July ye 15th — 


paid him by J hundred of 










meal, .... 





3 


6 




paid him by do., 





3 


6 




paid him by do., 





3 


6 




paid him by do., 





3 


6 




paid him by Wool,* . 





10 


6 




paid him by 7 men cutting 










his Turff, 





2 


1 


June ye 1st — 


paid him by Cash and Ac- 
count in full of May, 










1738, . . . . 


1 





3 




£4 









From the above it appears that men received about 3Jc7. 
a day wages in the spring. 

In 1737 Mr. Armar paid a mower for two days Is. lie?. 
In 1736 he sold a cow for £2 6s., and in 1737 another for 
£1 10s. 

From 1736 Mr. Armar seems to have superintended the 
rebuilding of Derry vullan church, the particulars whereof 
will appear in App. T. 

In 1736 he married Mary Cony, without a settlement, as 
appears by his will. She was at this time about four and 
twenty, and he about five and thirty. 

In 1741, by his brother-in-law's death, he became 
owner of the greater part of the estates which he before 
managed. 

Mr. Armar also held a power of attorney from Lady 
Gore, the widow of Sir Ralph Gore, of Belleisle, to manage 
that estate during the minority of her son. 

The Gore family were an elder branch of the family of 
which the Ear] of Arran is a younger branch. 
. In Pinnar's survey, 1619, we find as follows (page 168) : — 

" Captain Paul Gore hath 1,000 acres called Carrick. 

" Upon this Proportion there is a Bawne of Lime and Stone, 
with a house in it inhabited by an English gentleman. He hath 
on this land eight English families." 

From Captain Gore was descended the Rt. Hon. Sir 
Ralph Gore, bart., Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, 
whose name has before occurred in connexion with the 
Cony estates, as a trustee. He married Alice, daughter of 
Bishop St. George Ashe, of Clogher. The Rev. Win. Gore. 
Dean of Down, who lived at Bonnybrooke in 17-3, was a 
brother of his, and was father of a Bishop of Limerick. 

* Crossed out. 



197 



The minor whose property Mr. Armar managed became 
first Earl of Ross. After the death of his son, the second 
and last earl, the property was sold to the Rev. J. G. Porter. 
The baronetcy went on however : Sir Ralph St. George Gore 
is now the head of the family. 

On succeeding to his brother-in-law's estate, Mr. Armar 
made or obtained a table of the quit rents. It is as fol- 
lows : — 

Late Leslie Curry's estate in Fermanagh, from Quit Rent Office, 
Custom House, Dublin. 

Barr Maghrestephana. 

5. Doctor Thos. Wyatt — a. r. p. £ s. d. 

In Drumeraffe and Droells, . 55 14 10 

13. George Potter — 

Tenant in Coghil Mullan- 

sharty and Garryoghill, . 87 

In Droile, . . .13 

Drumlea, . . .21 

Tremish and Cromoy, . 30 

In the Mountain Pasture, . 25 

21. Ed. Cammys — 

Tenant in. Gowla als Gwola, . 2 

In Derryharne, . .70 

Mullaghkippin, als Domola- 

kippin, . . .14 

Aghnalow, . . .61 

In Gortgarrin, . . 5 

Drumhok alls Drumhank, . 13 

In Drumken, . . 6 

Aghmorr, . . .21 

In Derrymullaghen, . .17 

Barr. Tyrkennedy. Mr. 

1. John Curry — 

Tenant of Raynelly, 

Cornaichkelly, 

Arnogorrane, 

Caveleorgane, . . U20 

Clayboy, 

Moyshnagktt, . 

Drumoreboaugh and Brekall, 

2. Henery West — 

Tenant in Toppy Mountain, . Ill 
In Dring and Comgarb, . 30 

In Moynaughtt, . .32 

More in Toppy Mountain 

*In his own handwriting. 






2 

2 

2 


3 

2 

2 




Armar.* 









4 


18 
28 




10 



1 3 6 

3 6 

5 9J 

8 1 

6 11 

9 

18 101 



4 
16 





7 
4 

n 

8 

7 



5 13 5 



1 9 111 

8 1J 

8 7f 

2 21 



198 

Barr Tyrkenedy — continued. 
3. Math. Anktell— a. r, p. £ s. d. 

Derrynane, Corkelly, Tullogh- 
nevin, Goreagh, and Druni- 

dearge, . . . 120 1 12 if 

Moden, Partt of Toppy Moun- 
tain, 
The Quar of Land of Tertallen, 
Plus in Mountain, 

2. Rogr. Atkinson, C.R. — 

Tenant of Manr. Atkinson, . — 16 6 9 

Ban*. Largee. 
12. John Cuny, C.R.— 

Tenant of a Markett and Fair 

at the Town of Clabby, . — 5 



4 








1 


1 


125 








1 13 


9 


1 


2 








H 



Told. . . — 34 1 3 

34. Marry and R. Evatt — 

Mountain in Common in Lord 

Maguire's Estate, . . 358 19 4 16 8 



*653 1 20 38 17 11 

Evidently referring to the foregoing, I find the following 
letter : — 

"Cavan, 26 May, 1742. 

" Sir, — I have with the greatest Care Examined my Quit Rent 
Roll, But have not Found the Denominations of Land mentioned 
By you To mee In the Barony Tyrkenedy. viz.. Largey and 
Glasdmman, nor Indeed are they To Bee Found among the Deno- 
minations the Late Mr. Curry possessed, and of Coarse Cannott 
Bee Chargeable with Quit Rent. I Therefore presume they must 
Bee Sub Denominations of Those that are mentioned, and can no 
otherwise Bee Chargeable Then as they are in proportion To the 
quantity of the whole Patentt. I am, with due Respectt. 

" Sir, your most obedient, 

" Hiunble servant, 

" And. Nixc 

The following memorandum in Mr. Annar's own hand- 
writing evidently refers to the quit rent list : — 
Bar. Magluw Stephana. 

£ & d. 
Derryharne. . . 18 10i 

* The acreage of Manor Atkinson has been omitted from the above list. 



199 







Bar. Tyrkenedy. 


£ s. 


d. 


1. 


Jo : Cony, 


. Raynelly, &c, 


5 13 


5 


2. 


H. West, 


. Toppymo untain, 
Driny, &c, 
Moynaught, 
Toppymountain, 


1 9 

8 
8 

2 


ni- 
n 


3. 


Ma. Ankteil, 


. Derrynane, &c, . 
Moden, &c., 


1 12 
1 


l 






Tertallen, 


1 13 


9 






Plus in Mountain, 





*h 


2. 


Atkinson, . 




. 16 6 


9 


12. 


Jo. Corry, 


. Market and Fair, 


5 






29 51 

In Mr. Armar's rent-book I find an entry of arrears due 
out of the Lisbellaw estate, at Nov., 1751 : — 



Denominations. 

Cloughtogal, 
Derryclavin, 
Derryhoney, 
Derryharney, 

Toreghard, 

Lisreagh, 

Snowhill, 

Tuck Mill and Park, 

Tenement, 

Customs of the Fairs, 



Tenants' Names. 

William Rutledge 

James Gibb, 

Hugh Clarke, 

Mrs. Dudgeon (June 27th 

received), 
Robert Peters, 
Ralph Crawford, esq. 
Ditto, . 
Breslin, . 



Arrears due, 
Nov., 1751. 



8. 

13 

19 
4 



d. 

6 
6 

n 




16 101 



9 

10 

5 



Thomas Dudgeon (received) 10 
Walter Graham, . 10 



61 9 3 



61 9 3 



A list of arrears due out of the Church Lands, at 
November, 1751 : — 

Denominations. Tenants' Names. 



S} 



Arrears due at 

Nov., 1751. 

£ S. d. 

33 12 



Bohoe, . . Mr. Carleton, . £22 1 

Samsongh, . . Ditto, . 11 11 

Carrelemnan, . David Robinson, . 2 12 6 

Donagh, . . Mrs. Noble, . . . 16 3 

Drumgallon, . Mr. Crawford, . .550 

Fiddans, . . Widow West (June ye 30th, 

received), . . .330 

Ropola, . . Mr. Finley, . . . 3 13 6 



64 6 3 



200 



The foregoing relates to the Gore estate. Then comes 
his own. 

A list of arrears due of Castlecoole and the Church Lands 
at November, 1751 : — 



Denominations. Tenants' Names. 


Arrear due on 
Nov., 1751. 




£ S. 


d. 


Drumhirk, . . James Coltard, . 


3 3 





Killygrane, . . Widow Armstrong, 
Received by me. 


2 12 


7 


Killyless, . . . Thomas Irwin, . 
Mulloghsilligogh, . William Armstrong, . 
July 1st, received £9 6s. 


6 6 
27 14 







Rossyvoland . . Peggy Clarke, 
*£allintarsin, . . Robert Johnston, 


1 15 

6 16 



6 


*Standingstone, . . John Flanagan, . 


3 13 


6 




52 


7 


Arrear due at November, 1751, out of Lisbellaw 
estate, ....... 


61 9 


3 


Ditto due of the Church Lands, 


64 6 


3 



Ditto due out of the Castlecoole estate and the 
Church Lands, 



June ye 27th, 1752, cash paid to Mr. Arniar 
by Mrs. Dudgeon, ..... 



Do. ye 30th, received from Widow West in cash, 



July ye 1, received from William Armstrong, 
out of MullaghsilHgagh, .... 



Hugh Montgomery, esq., to Mr. Arniar is debtor. 
1752. To 80 guineas in silver, 

To Doctor M'Donald's bill on Robert 

Anderson, payable the first day of 

August next, ..... 

To the total amount of the arrear as on 

the other side of this leaf, 
Look into the memorandums left with 
J ohn Rogers, which you will find at 
the latter end of this book. 



125 15 


6 


52 


7 


177 16 


1 


9 10 


6 


168 5 
3 3 


7 



165 2 


7 


9 5 






155 


17 


7 


91 





Of 


34 


17 





155 


17 


7 



Church Lands. 



t This is so in the original MS. 



201 

The above is in a clerk's hand, then follows in Mr. Armar s 
own hand, scored across : — 

" You will find in my money drawer my account £ s. d. 
for ye effects of Christ. Blakely, and ye 
vouchers to support it. The balance, £29 
18s. 4c?., is in a bag, which you are to dis- 
tribute among ye brothers and sisters, and 
take their receipt on ye back of ye account 
for my safety : you are also to advice ym 
how to proceed in ye recovery of some bonds 
and Notes, tho' I fear a small part remains 
due." 

Then is added : — 

" I have eased you of this trouble," 

and further: — 

" June ye 30th, I left with Brian M'Manus for 
ye use of ye servants and labourers at Belle 
Isle 10 gs., 11 7 6 

" You will find in the drawer with my rent 
books Mr. William Hamilton's letters desir- 
ing credit for Ja : Graham, whose note and 
account are enclosed, which I wish you to 
have delivered to Mr. Hamilton with my 
compliments, desiring him to do as he pleases. 
Balance due to me, 22 14 4 



304 9 4 



" The lease and map of Killymalamphy are in 
ye drawer, perhaps you may hear from me 
concerning them." 



*■» 



Then follow, in the clerk's hand, some memoranda of half- 
yearly payments to be made for and on account of Mr. 
Armar, some of which are noted in his own hand as paid 
by himself. 

There is an item : — 

£ s. d. 

"To one yr qt rent due at Michaelmas, 1752 . 28 4 11 J 

To do., one by Sir R. Gore at do., . . 21 3 2 

These he has noted : — 

" I pay these sums in January following." 

At the bottom of the page Mr. Armar has written : — 
"To ye balance of Mrs. Dane's jointure due November, 1752, 
£7 10s." 



202 

At the end of the book are the " Memorandums for John 
Rogers " alluded to above. From these I extract the fol- 
lowing in a clerk's hand : — 

" To cash paid Andrew M'Donough on account of the stairs in 
the garden. £12 3s. lOd. 

"Note. — He received from me for finishing the steps thereof 
by day-work, the sum of £4 4s. take care to give him little. The 
work when done to be measured and valued by Mr. Price or Mr. 
Bindon ; I fear he is overpaid, so give him small subsistance till 
the work is done." 

Then follow some items due by various persons for rent, 
cows, cash lent, by balance of a note, by bond, and for meal. 

Then comes — 

" I agreed with Robert Peters for repairing the £ s. d. 
street of Enniskilling from the east bridge to 
the end of his former pavement, and was to 
pay him for the same, 21 14 6 

Paid him in cash by several payments, . . 18 8 7 J 

3 5 101 
Balance due to Peter, £3 5s. lO^d. is to be paid to him when 
his work is done and approved of by Fen ton Cole, esq., and Mr. 
Andrew Crawford." 

"May 31st, 1754, paid him £1 16s. 10£d. . ) 3 5 101 

„ paid him £1 9s. . J 2 

"I owe the county £8 10s., which I believe was applied to the 
building of a bridge at Mill town, and must be paid when called 
for by Mr. Rynd or Mr. Montgomery." 

This probably was the original of the present Thomas- 
town bridge. The road as before stated, has evidently been 
slightly diverted, and formerly ran down a very steep pitch 
into the mill tail, where there was a ford. The south ap- 
proach to this bridge was much improved in 1877. Thomas- 
town and Mill town join at this bridge. 

"May ye 21st, 1772, Mr. Auchinlech owes me £6 12s. 10c?." 

Further on in Mr. Armar's own hand : — 

" I expect yt ye granarie Book will be kept in my method. 
Sell ye old bull, I value him at 10 guineas. Sell ye yearling bull. 

" I hope yt labourers may be spared for ye repair of ye roads in 
ye domain. Mr. Montgomery will shew how that round ye lake 
is to be done." 

Mr. Armar appears to have had some friends given to 
writing poetry. From one of them (the Rev.) William 



203 

Thompson, who when at home resided apparently at Mrs. 
Jenkins' house in Aungier-street, Dublin, several letters in 
prose and poetry have been preserved, addressed either to 
Henry Brooke, esq., of Colebrooke, or to Mr. Armar. This 
gentleman was, judging by the handwriting, the same person 
who wrote the lines upon Castlecoole in Mr. Leslie Corry's 
time, and which are dated " Blessingbourne, 10th 24, 1735." 
Another friend was the Rev. Joseph Finlay ; another, the 
Rev. Dr. Dunkin, curate of Enniskillen, who appears to 
have been in some way, on more or less intimate terms with 
Lord Chesterfield. The names of other authors of MSS. 
are now lost. Of Mr. Thompson's I subjoin one more 
poetical specimen. It is unsigned and undated, but in that 
gentleman's bold handwriting — and relates to Mr. Armar's 
health. I am, therefore, inclined to put it about 1750. 

Dear Armar, — 

In my soul I'm grieved 
To find your ailments not reliev'd ; 
But surely there is power in art, 
To animate the languid part : 
When med'cines, mingled with the blood, 
Quicken the motion of the flood, 
And rouse the lazy parts to claim 
Their due proportion of the stream, 
Contracted venels must unfold, 
And the tubes swell to larger mold, 
The vital mass with freedom flow, 
And every part with vigour glow. 
The season, too, will soon defend 
The power of Art, and succour tend : 
Hail, genial sun, propitious ray, 
Parent of health, as well as day ! 
Be soon thy beams with warmth inclin'd, 
To aid the friend of human kind ; 
Ne'er did their pow'r, on worthier head, 
Through all thy course, kind influence shed. 
Another friendly aid I find, 
Inherent deeply in your mind ; 
Through all the scenes of life you trace 
The dignity of human race ; 
You weigh the moment and the measure 
Of casual pain and certain pleasure, 
And find, as ways and means you scan, 
The body menial to the man : 
Hence spring exalted thoughts, refin'd 
And suited to superior kind — 
From mind thus formed this aid you gain 
Your cure, or triumph over pain, 



204 

I also add a copy of one of his letters. 

Dear Sir, — T purposed before this time to have had Lucretius 
in printing, and to have had sent the sheets to you, for your 
amusement, as they were struck off, but, as the book, in the 
manner I mean to exhibit it, will cost me about £150, before it is fit 
to appear in public, common prudence bids me be cautious, but, 
be that as it may, you have the honour of being a subscriber with 
Lord Chesterfield, with whom I have been frequently in private, 
and for whom I had the enclosed struck, which is far from being 
the best part of the poem, purely to show him the form and manner 
in which T mean to publish the work. He told me he read the 
whole manuscript, and greatly approved of it, as an extremely 
good translation, at least equal to any translation he had met with 

of any kind, but you know what great folk mean when, <fcc. , 

but for my own honour I must take care, that it goes abroad in 
the best manner it can be habited by 

Dear sir, your most obliged and affectionate 
humble servant, 

W. Thompson. 
Saturday Evening. 

Of Dr. Dimkin's, there is a letter which is of some local 
interest, and which covered a prose and a poetical letter of 
introduction to Lord Chesterfield, in Latin, which were never 
delivered, probably because Mr. Armar did not go to Bath. 

My very dear Friend, — As in our last conversation about 
your going to Bath, I proposed to write a Letter to My Lord 
Chesterfield on that Occasion, I could not rest, till I discharged 
my Promise, and though it is here yet a doubtful Point, whether 
Mr. Armar is destined for England or not, that matter depending 
as I hear, on a consultation (I had almost said conspiration) of 
Physicians ; yet at all adventures I have sent the Credentials in- 
closed, which I hope he will accept as the best Indication of my 
sincere Friendship and Esteem. 

I have always imagined an Excursion of this kind might give 
a favourable Turn to the Constitution of his Body, by the mere 
change of climate and Exercise, while it entertained his mind with 
Variety ; and I have still the vanity to wish I may in any maimer 
prove instrumental in bringing together two Persons, whom I 
most affectionately love, and highly honour. 

It gives me Pleasure to find, that you have rather improved 
than impaired your Health by your late journey ; but for my Part, 
you must not judge of my Condition by the jocular Freedom of 
my Style to his Lordship ; which was written in sober sadness for 
his amusement to divert my own Melancholy. 

I have not enjoyed one pleasurable Day, since you left us ; and 
I am at this instant assaulted by violent Rheumatic Pains, and 
labouring under the lowest Dejection of Spirits. Thus am I 



205 

gloomy within ; and what have I without but dismal Prospects 
for my self and my neighbours 1 for surely such an unnatural, 
severe season, as this, hath not visited the sons of Adam's Race 
since the Days of Noah. It seems to threaten nothing less than 
Famine and Mortality. The Prices of all Provisions in our 
Markets are already doubled ; and, if Heaven abate not its Rigour, 
may soon be quadrupled, and so forth, ad infinitum, through the 
villanys of Forestallers and Monopolizers. I am obliged here to 
drop my Pen and take a Dish of Coffee, to Dispell, if possible, the 
vapours, which press upon this unhappy Brain of mine. Well now 
that Sullen Fit is almost over. I return to my Paper, somewhat 
revived ; and instead of writing, imagine my self speaking to my 
hospitable neighbour with my quondam Ease, Negligence, and 
Ignorance of all those high and mighty Matters, which pass for 
profound Wisdom with your Fools of Business, to the full Satis- 
faction of my own Appetite, the manifest consumption of his roast 
Beef, and repeated Evacuation of his Parson's Bottles. But alas, 
I dream and am again reduced to the common Element. The 
cellars of Castlecool are locked up, and the Chambers of the 
South displayed. It rains, it pours ; and if it holds on at this rate, 
I shall never be able to hold it out ; so that by the Return of 
Spring you may reasonably conclude that I and my Family are not ; 
or (what my wise neighbour, Crawford, thinks as bad) Beggars : 
for how can we shut our Hands, and have our Ears open 1 You 
have made your Escape in good Time from these crying Evils : 
otherwise it is a Penny to a Peck of Meal, but before Winter was 
over, you might in spite of your Teeth become a very Catholic, 
and fast three days in the week, whereas now (I would pawn my 
word for it) you devour an entire half ounce of Bread per diem. 

Should all other Expedients fail, I propose, in conjunction with 
my wife and children, to Commit some petty Felony, that we may 
be supported in jail at the public Expence. 

But suppose we should not honestly starve with hunger, is it 
not as cruel we should perish with Cold 1 I can neither beg, nor 
buy, nor borrow, nor steal a dry turf through this whole country ; 
so that I greatly fear I shall be compelled to make frequent 
Incursion into your Territorys, and terrible Devastations among 
your avenues and orchards. In this case you must not hope they 
can withstand my Fury ; for want cometh like an armed man, and 
necessity is keener than an ax. But, whatever, hostility s I may 
practise hereafter against your Property, it is high time I should 
give some quarters to your Patience ; therefore let me talk no 
more of cutting down your tall Trees, but break off this long 
Epistle. 

From your most obliged friend and faithful servant, 

William Dunkin. 
Enniskilling, July the 20th, 1752. 



206 

Among the general wishes and Prayers of this country for your 
and Mrs. Armar's prosperous voyage for England, and safe return 
to your native soil, I hope you will believe this family more 
especially concerned. 

I am sorry I could not dispatch this letter sooner to your hands. 

I translated my Latin letter for the Benefit of Lady Chesterfield 
and Mrs. Armar. Hall Dunkin has written copies of both for 
your use. 

My dear Lord, 

The sad accounts of your Deafness and Lowness of Spirits 
have rendered me quite insensible to those real Disorders, which 
my merry Friends here would think imaginary. They now begin 
to sympathize, and pity that visible distress, that instant affliction, 
which nothing, but the remote Prospect of seeing my Lord Chester- 
field in perfect health can alleviate. 

This Pleasure I propose to myself by the return of Spring, at 
Bath, when I hope to meet him, with his usual ease and con- 
descension, affable and audible, like the God of the Season, 
reviving all around him with sprightliness and joy. 

Since my Domestic affairs in the meanwhile cannot suffer me to 
cross the. Channel, in order to pay him my personal respects, I 
have deputed Mr. Armar, the Bearer of this Pacquet to be my 
Proxy; than whom I know not a more amiable and worthy 
Gentleman. His highest ambition is to be thought your Lordship's 
humble Servant. My sincere veneration for his virtues, and my 
singular obligations to your goodness could not resist the 
Temptation of recommending him to your particular notice, 
whom his own deportment will much more amply and effectually 
recommend. 

The Sole Disqualification he labours under is, that he is almost 
as deaf as your Lordship ; a double misfortune indeed, unless you 
chose to converse like the Blessed, by intuition. He is in Truth 
a man — But I shall not repeat in downright Prose, what I have 
said without a Fiction in Verse, and therefore give him over to 
his better genius, and your Lordship's Favour. 

I have maturely consulted a Common Lawyer, a Civilian, a 
Popish Priest, and a non-juring Parson about your Hereditary 
and Indefeasible Right to Deafness, and their opinions are severally 
thus. 

The non juror swears that he will never allow, the monarchical 
Prerogative of being deaf to the cries of a nation, to such a Re- 
publican in Liberty, Letters, and good works ; adding that 
Hereditary and indefeazable Right of Grievances, holds only good 
in cases of the King's Evil. 

The Popish Priest frankly confesses, that although your prudent 
and equal administration of affairs here, might in a great measure 
have blasted the Hopes of a certain Italian adventurer, and con- 
sequently hurted the Mother Church ; yet you were so far a 



207 

catholic Blessing to the poor Irish, that you made in a manner 
converts of him and his whole Fraternity : protesting they were 
willing to renounce and abjure, the divine Entail of arbitrary 
Power, Brogues and even wooden shoes, though made after the 
nicest French fashion ; and so subscribe to any political creed you 
should compile for the Salvation of their Goods and Chattels ; and 
that however you were not apt to take things upon Hearsay, yet 
as your Ears were always open to their just complaints, he will 
in opposition even to his Holiness of Home maintain, and assert 
your auricular infallibility. 

The Civilian, grants indeed that among all nations, bene facere, 
et male audire, is an established maxim of general Import and 
authority, but utterly denies that it extends to your Lordship's par- 
ticular case ; for that in foro conscientiee, though not so valid and 
binding as an express and positive canon, whereas you have been 
long well heard, you ought in your turn to hear as well. 

The Common Lawyer if more conversant with Common Sense, yet 
concludes with more natural justice, reason and equity, that no 
Defects or impediments of Proprietors, can legally and lineally 
descend to their Posterity, so as to bar, or affect Ears male, or 
Tongues Female. 

He farther saith on behalf of his Client, the Publick, plaintiff in 
the suit pending, that many of his majesty's good and faithful 
subjects, having been unduly disfranchised, ejected, and excluded 
from the Benefits of your lordship's audience and conversation, to 
the great detriment and obstruction of social commerce, good 
Humour and rational entertainment, are entitled to bring in their 
writ of quare impedit, in order to re-enter into free possession of 
their late ear-hold ; and therefore pray your lordship may prepare 
for a full hearing of these and other matters, to be set forth and 
exhibited in their bill of complaint. 

But in serious Truth suppose this Faculty much impaired, are 
there no more exquisite enjoyments in reversion for my Lord 
Chesterfield 1 Results no secret satisfaction from the Reflection of 
a thousand humane and generous actions 1 Does not pleasure 
attend him in flying from the Follies and impertinence of the dead 
Living to the conversation and wisdom of the Living Dead ? no 
sublime amusement in conceiving and writing now, what may be 
read and admired hereafter ? 

I should hope your lordship hath very little to complain of from 
the Decline of years. Dr. Swift at almost double your age, though 
he was never seen to smile, could make thousands laugh. Let the 
religious drones of Life retire into their cells, to tell their Beads and 
ruminate over their Death's heads — eorum vitam mortemque; 
sestimo; quoniam de utraque; siletur. But I would inscribe over 
the gate of your Hermitage in golden capitals — ex otio negocium ; 
for consider, my Lord, what Providence requires, your friends hope, 
and the world expects from your Talents. 

I will not venture to tell you what this nation continues daily 



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to think, and speak of my Lord Chesterfield ; because, if he could, 
he would not hear me : but his Humanity will indulge that Honest 
Pride, which I shall ever take in publickly professing, and privately 
subscribing myself his Lordship's 

Most obliged, most obedient and dutiful servant, 

William Dunkin. 
Enniskilling, August 5th, 1752. 

Epistola ad Comitem de Chesterfield. 
Auctus agris per te Genium Regalibus ultro, 
Qui patrios late campos, populumq. ; paterno 
Prsesidio laetum, et placida ditione beasti, 
Unde tibi possim dignas effimdere grates 1 
Carminibus quibus ? ingenii quo flumine tantas, 
Ut non majores meniorisub corde supersint 1 

Invidicene tuis, an plus accrevit honoris, 
Muneribus dubium ; fido non defore certum est 
Officio, seu laude ferar, seu forte maligno 
Deute petar, cunctos casus obiturus amsenam 
Propter amicitiam, generosum propter amorem, 
Hac mihi lege labor nullus gravis, aut mihi dui*us, 
Nee stimulos acres, dulci sub melle recuse 

Te canat, au sileafc 1 premit hinc oblivio vatem, 
Hinc rapit ambitio. Vanos levis inter haberi, 
Quam niger ingratos malit, ni saepius istis, 
Quas numeris ornare velim, virtutibus obsim ; 
Aut non tarn veteris videar meminisse favoris, 
Quam sperare novum. Sed quid sperare, quod aeque 
Et prudens roget, et Stanhopus concedat honeste, 
Non liceat ? Mihi summa peto, dum posco sodali 
Non, quas vulgus opes, et honores turba clientum 
Miratrix, nee enini tanti sit gratia Requm 
Armaro, nee, quod contingat cuilibet, optat ; 
Sed quod verus honor maudat, quod mascula virtus 
Concitat, et ratio selegerit, atq ; probarit. 

Inde fit, ut, qui jam prseceptis pectus amicis 
Muniit, hand ullis addictum partibus, hospes 
Se velit esse tibi propriorem, quern procul omnes 
Suspiciunt, paucisq. ; sequi per lubrica vitae, 
Publica privatis nectemtem commoda fas est. 

Denique, pro meritis in se non immemor altis, 
Hunc tibi musa virum tradit : tu carminis auspex, 
Pierii tutela laris, Cittaraeq. ; facultas, 
Has pietatis opes, mercedem suscipe, dignam 
Te, laribusq. ; tuis. Hunc experiere fidelem, 
Artubus insanum, votis animoq ; valentem, 
Pergratumq. ; licet surdis minus auribus apt urn , 
Cujus vita domi vestrae non absona vitae 
Et nevei mores respondent moribus almis. 



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An Epistle to the Eael of Chesterfield. 
Translated from the Latin. 

Endow'd by Thee with Royal Tracts of Land, 
The free Donation of thy genial Hand, 
That parent Hand, which bore Hibernia's Reins, 
And cheer'd her happy sons, and blest her ample Plains, 
In what a Tide of Rapture can I roll, 
The quick sensations of a grateful soul, 
That deeply more may not remain, imprest 
Within the volume of my brooding Breast 1 

What store of Envy, or Applause pursues 
Thy princely Bounties to an humble Muse 
Is doubtful : certain is my faithful Heart 
To persevere, and act the pious Part. 
Let Approbation crown my rising Days, 
Or Malice breathe, to blast my greener Bays, 
All Chances I despise, and soar above, 
For such sweet Friendship, such exalted Love. 
I matter not the Rancour they may bring, 
Nor for the Honey would avoid the sting. 

Should I be loud or silent in thy Fame, 
Hence base Oblivion brands the Poet's Name ; 
Thence wild Conceit intoxicates his Brain, 
Yet rather light, and cypher'd with the vain 
He would appear, and bear the Critic jibe, 
Than black be number'd with the thankless Tribe, 
Unless he might dishonour with his praise, 
And sink those Virtues, which he meant to raise ; 
Or seem to have no farther points in view 
From ancient Favours, than to hope for new. 

But what, my Lord, to give Ambition scope, 
May not my Pride from your Indulgence hope ; 
That prudence can entreat with modest Face, 
Or Stanhope grant with Dignity and Grace 1 
Thy Poet, panting for the noblest end, 
Sues for himself, in suing for his Friend, 
Not sordid Riches, which the mean require, 
Or gilded honours, which the proud admire ; 
For Armar neither would esteem the State 
And smiles of Monarchs at so high a Rate, 
Nor languishes for what may fall, as due, 
To John-O'-Nokes, as well as Him or You ; 
But what true Worth, what manly virtue moves 
And prompts, as Reason chuses, and approves. 

It happens hence, that He, by Merit charm'd, 
Whose Bosom glows, with social Maxims arm'd, 



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Bound to no party, wishes to be free, 
And therefore wishes to be near to Thee, 
Whom distant all revere, and seek apace, 
But few can follow through the lubric Bace 
Of mazy Life, connecting as they should 
Their private Welfare with the public Good. 

Such is the Man, and such the Muse at last 
Presents in Duty for thy Grace's past : 
And Thou, bright Leader of the tuneful Throng, 
The Guardian, Guide, and Genius of my song ! 
This living Treasure, willing Tribute deem 
Well worth Acceptance, and thy fair esteem. 
Him in his Limbs enervate shall thou find, 
A very Sampson in his Heart and Mind, 
Though less adapted for distempered ears, 
A rare companion for the prince or peers, 
Whose Life composed to Harmony divine 
And candid Morals correspond with Thine. 

Of Mr. Joseph Finlay's effusions I subjoin four ; the first 
is entitled — 

Hybernia. 

Hybernia erst with woods and bogs 
Infested, and with gloomy fogs 

And a Beotian air, 
Her chearful head begins to raise, 
Her harp is tuned, and as she plays 

New glories gild her sphere. 

Her nobler sons compose her Quire ; 
Informed by her, they strike the Lyre, 

And with fine airs surprise ; 
From whence divine attraction flows ; 
Allured each Art and Science grows, 

And turn to them their eyes. 

Hybernia smiles, such fond regards 
Apollo showed, say antient Bards 

Amidst the tuneful nine ; 
Where as he sat with notes more sweet 
The Band the Music to compleat 

Did in full concert join. 

(a) But who is he who firm to own, 
The worthy cause has nobly shown 

A generous care so long ? 
Learning and arts of every kind, 
Him friend, him benefactor find, 

And unto him belong. 



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(b) Behold another Reverend head 

Which health and science loves to spread, 

And precepts writes, and lives, 
Defending — what he honours — age. 
He too the Muses to engage 
Athenian medals gives, 

Lo ! what associate numbers join, 
And in the splendid task combine, 

With an incessant care, 
T' improve our 'factures and our Soil 
To recompence and honour toil 

And bid the Land look fair. 

Look round and see the lovely scenes, 
The mountains vying with the plains, 

The mosses with the meads, 
New oaks and elms, new fruits arise, 
New fair canals convey supplies ; 

Industry commerce leads. 

Urganda, thus her magic wand 
Seemed waving o'er the barren sand, 

A wild and dreary waste ; 
When sudden vernal views appear, 
And the glad eyes gay landscapes chear 

With gliding rivers graced. 

Ignoble sordid sloth is fled, 

While active thrift shines forth instead 

With a clear chearf ul brow ; 
Encouraged to exert new Pow'rs 
She reckons all her precious hours 

And knows their value now. 

The next poem in Mr. Finlay's writing, appears to be an 
epigram upon Mr. and Mrs. Armar, allusion being made to 
their having no children, to their kindness to the poor, to 
Mr. Armar's improvements at Castlecoole, and to his in- 
different health. 

Philander and Aspasia. 
A Poem. 
Aspasia's to an Angel half refined, 
The feeblest Body, but the noblest Mind ; 
From finest nerves the liveliest Spirit springs, 
As sprightliest music from the smallest strings ; 
But while with pleasure we enjoy tie strain, 
The trembling instrument is rack'd with pain. 

(a) (b) It may seem needless to mention, unless to those who are strangers to 
the affairs of Ireland, that the persons here alluded to are Dr. Madden and the 
Bishop of Cloyne. — Note in the MS, 

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Weighed, with the leaden hand of Sickness, down, 

She pines without a mumur or a frown : 

Her melancholy" never turns severe, 

Nor casts a shadow on the objects near : 

As evening Mists, which Summer Heats exhale, 

Hang o'er the Lake, but never cloud the Yale, 

The Stranger's sight her laughing eyes beguile, 

And with her nearest friends her sorrows smile ; 

Thus when the Sun in sad Eclipse declines, 

To some with undiminished Light he shines ; 

And when o'er all his face the gloom is laid, 

A ray of Glory sparkles round the shade. 

Not hardened by her woes, or soft to few 

Her Pity shed on all its fruitful dew : 

As fountains warm, with healing Virtue, cast 

Their streams, unfrozen by the winter's blast. 

Her ear still open to the Stranger's moan, 

She feels his anguish, even through her own ; 

And does she only feel it 1 — Hear the voice 

Of want and sickness at her gate rejoice ! 

O ! you with her, the Blessing of the Swain ! 

The Partner of her Patience, as her Pain ! 

If thus Aspasia our affections warms, 

Who stand without and view but half her charms, 

How must you love ! who penetrate the whole, 

Share all her thoughts, and live within her Soul : 

See every delicate reflection start, 

And feel the goodness glowing at her Heart ! 

Nay more, whose heart with all her goodness burns 

And meets her generous Soul with full returns ! 

O Happy Union ! Harmony Divine ! 

Where both in Virtue, as in Love combine ! 

While each the other's sentiments receives ; 

As two Fair Rivers intermix their Waves, 

Bless all the lands beside them as they go, 

And to their parent's bosom jointly flow. 

And is no blessing to such fondness giv'n, 

No offspring of such Excellence 1 

But Heaven, not in this perhaps less Kind, 
Hath blessed them with the offspring of the mind, 
See those Young Graces into Virtues grown, 
With all their Blossoms into Beauty blown ! 
Thy hand, Aspasia, rears each lovely Flow'r ; 
Instructs them how to scape the dang'rous hour, 
To fence their tender breasts from nightly harms, 
And by their Union multiply their charms : 
Preserve their Sweetness, when their Bloom is past, 
And by their fragrant Virtues always last. 



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Philander 's skill to Hardships reconciled, 
Secures the faithless bottom, tames the Wild ; 
Through the rough Mountain smooths a road with pain, 
And humanizes all the savage plain. 

Or led by florid fancy cloaths the Waste 

With all the gay magnificence of taste. 

And following natures flights from place to place, 

Improves her beauty, covers her disgrace : 

Spreads a rich carpet o'er the horrid Moor, 

Turns the green Arch and rolls the gravelled Floor \ 

Perpetuates through endless lanes the sight ; 

While various tunes distract us with Delight. 

The frowning Wood where day is but a dawn 
Or the soft bosom of the naked lawn : 
The gently leaning Hill, the circling Glade, 
And Silver Vein, that twinkles through the shade : 
Spreads in the broad canal its flowing glass, 
And sleeps with graceful smiles along the Grass : 
Or stealing from the fond spectator strays 
And round the Hill in wanton windings plays. 

But nobler works engage his private hours, 

And call him to exert more useful powers, 

Here in his Little World, he fills the Throne 

With Truth and Wisdom to the Great unknown. 

Is any wretched % here he finds access : 

Is any injured 1 ? here he meets redress. 

He leads the Blind with care along the road, 

And bears the Widow's and the Orphan's load, 

Pure from corruption are his righteous hands 

Nor turn the Sacred Current to his Lands 

But, skilled with happy Judgment to bestow, 

He makes his Riches, like his Waters, flow. 

In many copious channels, that conduce 

At once to Public Ornament and Use 

Foe to the vagrant Weed's destructive growth, 

Sustaining Want, he exercises Sloth, 

In splendid Labours, where his seeming Waste 

Is only Bounty in the Dress of Taste. 

Remember, O Fermanagh, when he fed 
Thy famished children once with Distant Bread 
With foreign Food as friendly hands supply 
The Infant, when his Mother's breast is dry 
Repaired th' exhausted treasures of the Earth, 
And poured a Plenty in the Rage of Dearth, 



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Enough ! Philander, scatter round thy wreath ; 
But spare thy poor remains of precious health, 
Opprest with other cares, behold, he bends ! 
But biightens at his Table crowned with Friends. 
With taste the Buffet is adorned : the Board 
With Plenty, nobler than profusion, stored : 
The vital liquor bleeds from num'rous veins 
And all is happy, for Aspasia reigns. 

Excluding aught ungraceful or unfit 

Discretion dips the wanton wings of wit, 

Here Human Frailty never is exposed ; 

And Slander's fiery Mouth is ever closed, 

That loaden deep with Hate, by Stealth destroys, 

And gives the Wound, before we hear the Noise. 

Yet Mirth with mildness is not held a crime, 

And Humour loves to play in tune and time, 

Aspasia's spirit starts the friendly strife, 

Eliza's cheerful frankness gives it life, 

Clarissa's wit in live]y flashes breaks, 

And Laughter flies around if Laelio speaks j 

Whose thoughts are happy, tho' his words are few : 

Like Clocks, that strike but seldom, always true. 

Philander's Genius ruling, as the Soul ; 
While Easy Breeding polishes the Whole. 
So the nice Artist smooths the solid Glass, 
Till all the roughness of its surface pass ; 
Then clear from any Stain or any Gloom, 
It casts a lustre round the stately room ; 
Reflects all Nature's works with Life and Truth, 
And shines the pleasing Monitor of youth 
Here ever entertained with friendly ease, 
And not displeasing, if I fail to please, 
Delighted I divide my happiest days 
Where truth converses and where reasons sways, 
Where Virtue by Religion is improved, 
And all are Lovely, Loving, and Beloved. 

Mr. Finlay's third poem is : — 

"On the Waterworks at Castlecool, which gave bread to l 
number of the Poor employed there in a time of scarcity." 

An Epigram. 

The bread cast on the Water, Scripture says 
And thou shalt find it after many days. 
Arinar obedient to the Text appears, 
And may he find it after many years. 



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A Critic says, it seems, You'd have him wait 
Long for reward, and is not that ingrate ? 
Ev'n call it as you please, the truth to tell, 
We wish him — but we wish ourselves, too, — well. 

The fourth is entitled : — 

" The Collonell's Perquisites."* 
When mad Rebellion standards durst display 
And mandates from the Throne came to array, 
Armar, among th' appointed Leaders nam'd 
At higher honour than the title aim'd. 
He soon habiliments of War prepar'd 
And gave out clothing — not without reward, 
For other Collnells well rewarded be 
In such an article — and why not he 1 
The wily Man t'increase in riches thought, 
As when his bread in dearths, low prices sought 
But, now, as if he was more wily grown 
He buys, bestows — and the whole cost's his own. 
And has he no reward 1 — Yes, — what befits, 
For Love and Honour are his Perquisites. 

None of the foregoing are dated. But the mention of 
Eliza Cony being an inmate at Castlecoole makes it probable 
that they were written about 1750, as she married Mr. 
Archibald Hamilton in that year. By him she had one son, 
who I believe died unmarried. She married secondly 
James Leslie, esq., of the family of Ballybay, county 
Monaghan, prior to 1765. I do not know who are intended 
by Clarissa and Laelio : possibly Mr. and Mrs. Galbraith 
Lowry, as Mr. Armar and Mr. Lowry appear to have been 
great friends. These last three poems appear to fix the 
date of the making of the garden connected with the old 
house at Castlecoole, traces of which are still to be found 
in the field now called the bowling green, and also of the 
making of the old fish pond between the house and Coney- 
burrow wood, and a wide ditch or canal, now mostly filled up. 
In connexion with this the terraces round that wood were 
evidently made ; and the row of remarkably fine beech trees 
which form the outer edge of the wood, appear to answer 
very well to this date, as the probable time of their being 
planted. They are not as tall or old as those in the beech 
walk ; but on the whole are finer specimens, although some 
of those in the walk surpass them. I lately saw a tree in 
the park at the Hague which compared with them. 

* Mr. Armar is named in the Commission of Array for the County Fermanagh 
as Colonel Armar, and was I believe sometimes so called. He probably had 
command of the Fermanagh Militia, but there is no commission of hi3 extant, 
that I am aware of. 



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I cannot identify the writing of the following lines upon 
the Church at Enniskillen. 

Dr. Garnet was Bishop of Clogher from 1758 to 1782. 

^EDIS APUD ENNISKILLEN 

Ad Recte Reverendum Episcopum Clogherensem. 

qui supreini Numinis integros 
Cultus tuentes quin et Ovilia, 
Garnette, Pastores tueris 
Mente pia vigiliaque cur a 

Devota Christo, Templa reponere 
Antiqua gaudens et nova condere, 
Audi querentem Praesul 03dem 
Et lacerse miserere sortis. 

Me gens Virorum clara fidelium, 
Audaxque hello, struxit in insula 

Hinc inde pratis quam virentem 
Lapsus aqua? sinuosus ambit. 

Longe repulsit turrigerum caput 
Multosque firmo robore constiti 
Victrix per annos et Iehova 
Docta sacras iterare laudes : 

Donee, procellis icta furentibus, 
Crebroque ssevse grandinis impetu, 
Densisque nimborum catervis 
Tecta cavis patuere rimis. 

Tandem ruinas setheris horridas 
^Evique ; plagas, heu lacrimabiles ! 
Mercede conductus, redemptor 
Continuo reparare spondet ; 

Pactunique fabri nunc opus inchoant : 
At, dum refixis exthna culminum 
Munire contendunt tigilhs, 
Et fragili decorare saxo, 

Vultus pudicos ut Pharisaica 
Gens induebat, conscia criminum, 
Ac, turpis introrsum, patellae 
Rite superficium lavabat, 

Interna, dictu tristia, negligunt 
Aut latiori fvinere proruunt 

Sanctumque consph*ant lacunar 
Cum rapidis violare ventis 

Divulsa nutant membra sedilium 
Raucum refracts vocis imagine, 
Debellat oratoris arina 
S emir at am per inane Rostrum. 



21? 

Fragmenta celsis de laquearibus 
Horranda, quanto pondere pendula ! 
Infra precantum comminantur 
Yerticibus ruitura mortem. 

Atqui sacrarum tu, pater op time, 
Tutela rerum me refici jube, 

Lsesique jam vindex decori 
Redde suos adytis honores. 

Non 

Ornata gemmarum, nee auri 
Congerie, simidacra posco ; 

Non mortuorum lintea vivida 
Divum figuris, non crucis semulas 
Dirse tabellas 

Sed quo sacelli gratior emicat 
Cultura simplex ; seu tibi candidi 
Mores honestant jure mentem 

Ingenuam et sine fraude comptam \ 

Quo vota, puro pectore supplices 
Tuti clientes fundere gestiant 

Neu quid pavescant pseter acres 
Cuncta Dei Speculantis iras. 

The Church at Enniskillen. 
To the Right Reverend the Bishop of Clogher. 

O Garnett, who with zealous heart sincere, 
Thy Maker's holy worship dost attend ; 

And with a pious mind, and watchful care 
Defend the Shepherds who the Folds defend. 

Rejoycing to reform those ancient Fanes, 
To Christ devoted, or with fairer grace, 

To build new Temples, hear my plaintive strains, 
And pity, mitred Chief, my doleful case. 

A Race of Heroes raised my goodly Pile, 

Religious Heroes, crowned with martial wreath, 

In that egregious Meadow-skirted Isle, 

Which winding Erna's ambient eddy bathes. 

My Spiral Front, refulgent far around, 
Arose, and I compos'd of solid wood ; 

Triumphant long and tutor'd to resound 
The hallow'd praises of Jehova, stood. 

Till beaten, batter'd by the frequent Force 
Of raging Tempests, cruel Hail and Bands ; 

Of torrent Rains, resistless in their Course, 

Yawning with Chinks my Dome horrific stands, 



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At length, engaged by mercenary Ties, 

Of promis'd Fees, an Undertaker sage 
Vows to repair the Ruins of the Skies, 

And lamentable wounds of eating Age. 

And now his mates the rated work commence, 

But while they labour to refix aloof ; 
With slender Rafters, impotent defence, 

And beautify with brittle slates my Roof — 

As once the faithless Pharisaic Herd, 

Conscious of Crimes put on a modest main 

And of the Cup in Sacrifice preferred, 

Within polluted, washed the surface clean — 

My Parts interna] they neglect or crush, 
With wider waste, dismal Fate of shame ; 

And with the winds precipitant to rush, 
Conspired to rend my consecrated Frame. 

The Pews disjointed totter, half destroyed, 
The Pulpit screaming to the hoarse alarms 

Of babbling echo through the vocal void, 
Defeats the Preacher's oratorial Amis. 

The fractur'd ceilings as by subtil Threads 

Dreadful dependant with what cumbrous weight ; 

To praying Crowds, full o'er their subject Heads, 
In act to tumble threaten instant Fate. 

But thou, paternal President, the Guard 

Of sacred Things, my dignities renew. 
And patronizing Decency now niarr'd, 

Restore those Honours to my mansions due. 

Not 

Demand I statues deck'd with orient Rays 
Of Gems and Jewels, prodigally vain. 

Not Canvas glowing with the living Lines 

Of saints departed, not on pictur'd Board, 
The direful Cross 

But that my neat Embellishment may shine 
More plainly grateful, as the candid heart 

Adorns thy mind with Probity benign, 
Innate, refin'd, without the guize of Art. 

That from their Souls with purer rapture fed, 
Free from the Perils, which impending nod, 

Their vows my suppliants may refund, nor dread 
Aught but the vengeance of all-seeing God. 

Mr. Armar's papers included two or three copies of verses 
by Dr. Swift. Also another by Mr. Finlay, entitled " An 



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Epistle on the Peace ; to the Rev. Dr. Delany, humbly 
inscribed to Marge tson Armar, esq." 

"Paciferseque manu ramum pretendit olivee." — Virgil. 

This is not of sufficient interest to transcribe, but I men- 
tion it because Dr. Delany, sometime Dean of Down, was 
the husband of " Mrs. Delany." He was an S.F. T.C.D., 
and " went out " upon Derryvullen parish, in which Castle- 
coole is situated. There is also a copy of a letter from 
Bishop Atterbury to Mr. Pope, written from Paris, 28th 
November, 1731 ; and of the will of Bishop Stearne, who is 
said to have been promoted to the See of Drornore* to make 
way for Dean Swift, in St. Patrick's. He died in 1745, 
aged eighty-five. He left an estate to make certain en- 
dowments, now known as Stearne's Charity. I have a 
mezzotinto engraving of his portrait at Castlecoole. 

I now give two documents, one of which has a political 
and the other a legal bearing, which probably interested 
Mr. Armar at the time. 

The following is a copy of a copy of a letter, supposed 
to be from the Lords Justices of Ireland, George Stone, d.d.,*|- 
Lord Primate, Henry Earl of Shannon, and the Rt. Hon. 
John Ponsonby, sometime Speaker, to the Duke of New- 
castle, Prime Minister. How the copy of a document of 
this nature came to be amongst these papers I cannot tell. 
The resignation of their offices tendered by the Lords Jus- 
tices in case their advice was rejected, cannot have been 
accepted, as they held office whenever the Lord Lieutenant 
was absent, or there was none, during the period from 10th 
May, 1760 until 1765. Lord Halifax was appointed Lord 
Lieutenant in October 1761. 

Dublin Castle, December 23rd, 1760. 
My Lord, — Your Grace cannot doubt of our having been 
affected with the greatest surprize, nor of our feeling the deepest 
concern on finding that our representation to your Grace dated 
the 23rd November had produced an effect so contrary to our 
hopes, and that our intentions should be so far mistaken by your 
Grace, as that when the order was transmitted by His Majesty's 
Privy Council of England, to the Privy Council here, your Grace 
was not pleased either yourself to condescend, or would not direct 
others^ (by whom your Grace's orders are usually signified to us, 

* John Stearne, Dean of St. Patrick's, became Bishop of Drornore in 1713 and 
was translated to Clogher in 1717. 

f George Stone, a native of Winchester, having been Dean of Derry, became 
Bishop of Ferns and Leighlin in 1740, of Kildare in 1743, of Derry in 1745 ; and 
was Lord Primate from 1747-65. 

\ The Secretaries of State were the Rt. Hon. William Pitt, and Robert Earl of 
Holdernesse. 



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and whose total silence as well upon, as since this occasion, can 
only in one way be accounted for,) to furnish us with any one 
reason that might rectify our own mistake, or might induce others 
to change the opinion upon which end they had proceeded ; and we 
must submit it to your Grace, whether the ends of His Majesty's 
service might not more probably have been answered, without this 
act of seeming severity, or whether any end can be answered by 
it, except that of rendering us contemptible in the eyes of the 
People, as we must appear to have been in your Grace's estimation. 
Yet although we have too just cause for apprehending that your 
Grace's good opinion and favour are withdrawn from us, we think 
it still a duty incumbent on us, so long as we are continued in 
His Majesty's service, to transmit to your Grace accounts, as we 
hope for His Majesty's information, as to what has hitherto passed 
with regard to this difficult and perplexing transaction. The letter 
from the Privy Council of England, was taken into the most 
serious consideration two days successively, the 18th and 19th of 
this month, in as full a Council as could be brought together ; all 
Lords residing within fifty miles of Dublin having been sum- 
moned to attend ; and we must say (how little soever our testimony 
may be wanted in this case, or how little soever weight it may at 
present cany with it in any,) that there could not be a greater 
harmony of affection, nor a warmer zeal for giving the strongest 
and most convincing proofs of duty and loyalty to His Majesty, 
in the breasts of any of his subjects, than in those Lords who were 
there assembled. Diversity of opinions there was, and still 
remains among them, and the point of difference seemed to us 
to be, whether the nominal or the real service of His Majesty's 
Government ought to have the preference ; it being a matter of 
great difficulty with some, and as we thought with the major part 
of them, whether the conceiving themselves bound by the most 
solemn oaths as Privy Councillors, to give the best advice that 
occurred to them for His Majesty's service, could though required 
by the Highest Authority, advise and recommend a measure, which 
it was not denied by any, might in its consequences obstruct the 
very services they had sworn to promote. This consultation ended 
with an order to a committee, to prepare a Bill or Bills containing 
more material causes than those already offered for calling a Par- 
liament. The Committee met on Monday last j a bill was offered 
for continuing the duties already granted by Parliament to His 
Majesty for three months from the 25th December, 1761, the day 
on which they are to expire ; and without further proceeding, the 
Committee adjourned itself almost with general consent to the 
1 2th day of next month. 

As the consequence of delay can immediately affect the people 
of this Kingdom only, we have rather wished to avoid a hasty 
determination, as hitherto it has not seemed to be in our 
power, if we had wished it, to have procured any other but a 
negative determination upon that sort of bill, which appeal's 
to be expected, though not expressly required from us ; besides 



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that it would be no easy task for us, to endeavour to reconcile 
to others, that which we could not say we had reconciled to 
our own judgments. It has therefore, after many experiments 
offered, been concluded on all sides, to be more respectful 
to make no return, until such a one can be made, as shall 
be previously known, will be received as satisfactory ; and in the 
meantime we must submit to the inconveniences which by this 
misunderstanding have fallen upon us. But this short pause 
affords us an opportunity of laying the motives of our past con- 
duct before your Grace, more fully than we have done, not 
apprehending they would be called into such strict question ; as 
also of declaring our sentiments more explicitly with regard 
with what may be to come. And we humbly hope and confide 
in your Grace, that this explanation on our part, offered in justi- 
fication of ourselves, may undergo the consideration of His 
Majesty's ministers, who may have imagined that we have been 
wanting in our duty to His Majesty, or have been attempting 
to innovate upon the constitution of this country. We are in- 
formed by report, (the only light we have now to walk by,) 
that we are supposed to have formed this entire plan, before 
we first offered our opinions upon the expediency, of immedi- 
ately dissolving the late and calling the new Parliament ; and 
that we produced it piece by piece, as we thought the execution 
of it might be best secured. We confess we are almost ashamed 
of endeavouring to clear ourselves of such an imputation. At 
the same time we can say no more in answer to it, than that 
it has not the least foundation in truth ; and as far as a negative 
is capable of being proved, we could prove that such a suspicion 
is most injurious to us. The first thought was sudden, the 
shortness of the time allowed no leisure for slow deliberation, 
every form of calling a Parliament was not then present to our 
minds, nor did the difficulty now in question occur to any one of us, 
until it was mentioned in council on Friday, the 21st of November, 
two days before the date of our letter on the subject to your Grace. 
We saw the reason of the case, and so did every Lord of the Council 
present, and we hoped that the reason might carry it through : this 
is the whole of the management that has been used ; and we must 
with some confidence ask your Grace whether our conduct since we 
have had the honour of serving the Crown under your Grace's in- 
spection, tallies with this disingenuity, of which we are told we 
stand suspected. We shall not detain your Grace with repeating 
arguments upon the point itself, already, as we must conclude, 
thought insufficient. The right of certifying money bills originally 
from the Privy Council, we never meant to question. Every Lord 
of the Council has been explicit in declaring that right, and will 
be ready to vindicate and support it upon every occasion of 
necessity, when the necessity shall arise in the natural course of 
things, and is not created evidently for that purpose. And as we 
conceived His Majesty's prerogative, (by which we understood a 



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right inherent in the Crown,) to be in no way concerned in this 
question, we thought that present expediency might with safety be 
consulted, as not only the intention, but the very letter of 
Poyning's Act, taking the explanatory Act along with it, was as 
effectually complied with, and generally understood to be so, by 
certifying a money bill into England, the matter of which has been 
first proposed in the House of Commons, as if it were originally 
begun in the Council. When we considered present expediency, 
we thought there never was a season in which the Privy Council 
could with less certainty than at present, take upon them to fore- 
see the several contingencies, and to state all the various possible 
relations of His Majesty's revenues and establishments in the 
kingdom, which may happen from this time to the 25th December, 
1761, when any money bill they may now have certified must 
commence. Many new laws for the better collecting of the duties 
were also passed in the last session, are now in experiment, the 
different effects of which may make it necessary to change the 
rates of particular duties ; and if any plans of that sort should be 
in the minds of the leading members of the House of Commons, 
whether for the advancement of His Majesty's revenue, or for 
the ease of the subject, and they should find themselves prevented 
by a bill prepared for them ; that consideration might serve as a 
reason for rejecting the bill, even with those who otherwise might 
be induced to treat it with more delicacy. But the manner in 
which the last bill of that nature which was offered to the House 
of Commons in the year 1727, (and which was free from any of 
those objections which may now be apprehended), made its passage 
through the House, and the unanimous resolution declared to be 
a standing order of that House, which immediately followed, 
and seems to have been a sort of stipulation for the passing it, 
has entailed new and insuperable difficulties upon those who 
have now the honour of serving the Crown, and was a condition 
which we must suppose would not have been submitted to, if the 
passing of the bill, which was at that time necessary, could have 
been obtained upon easier terms. Upon these considerations we 
could not apprehend it would be thought criminal in us to advise 
that the Commons of Ireland, as the most convincing proof of 
their loyalty and affection, should be indulged in the liberty of 
offering to His Majesty in the first session of his reign the usual, 
(or should the exigencies of Government require it) larger supplies, 
of their own free will and motion, rather than for the sake of 
forcing upon them, at most a nominal and ineffectual bill 
of supply, to hazard the real supply, and disincline them from 
setting about with cheerfulness, to make a sure provision for the 
discharge of those large sums voted to His late Majesty, in the 
last session of the late Parliament, the payment of which is only 
secured by a vote of credit of a different representative.* That 
a bill now to be transmitted would be rejected seems to be 

• Sic 



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put out of the question even by those Lords who are the 
most ready to certify it ; but that to some may be an event 
in which they from their situations may look upon themselves 
as not accountable. We, whilst we are continued by His 
Majesty's favour in the high trust now committed to us, 
should think ourselves the worst of servants, if we did not 
look a little further into the consequences of a measure, in the 
execution of which we are to have a share, and consider that His 
Majesty will take the sense of his Parliament, as the sure criterion 
by which he will judge whether his business is well or ill conducted, 
and of the merit and demerit of those whom he shall be pleased to 
employ in his service. We are persuaded, whatever the disposition 
of the nation may be on other points, that in any House of Com- 
mons that could be elected here, there would not be a man whose 
heart would not be full of duty, loyalty, and affection to His 
Majesty ; yet it is no inconsistent supposition, that much uneasiness 
may be created to administration, if the gentlemen who are likely 
to compose that House in the ensuing Parliament, should meet 
together, possibly not a little disturbed and agitated by this very 
measure, certainly much sowered* by the expense, the delay in 
issuing the writs must unavoidably occasion, and with minds 
fretted and ulcerated by the animosities, which such tedious 
disputes and competitions must necessarily be attended with. 
But there is reason to apprehend still worse consequences, 
should the body of the people, incapable of judging of the precise 
value of form, and, therefore, the more apt to conceive unreasonable 
jealousies and suspicions of what is represented to them by their 
superiors merely as such, may be influenced by their fears, or by 
the artifices of factious persons, to exact new tests from their repre- 
sentatives, which practice has been early setafoot,and is daily spread- 
ing itself in all parts ; and there may be too much reason to fear, that 
many among the candidates in the course of a long and violent ferment, 
may be drawn into a compliance, and may plead the obligation, or the 
dread of the consequences of violating it, as a reason for obstinate and 
general opposition. We must again submit to your Grace, whether 
we, as being supposed to be not unacquainted with the temper of 
the people of Ireland, and the several views of those distinct 
parties which has ever subsisted in it, were not obliged to lay 
these matters before your Grace, and His Majesty's other ministers ; 
and whether we might not have had some hope they would be 
listened to in a point, which, until we are better informed, we must 
say, doth not affect either the prerogative, the constitution, nor any 
one law of either kingdom ; and we must once more for the last 
time, with all deference recommend it to your Grace's considera- 
tion, whether any measure can be devised more for His Majesty's 
service, than that His Majesty should be graciously pleased, through 
your Grace's interposition, and that of His Majesty's principal 
ministers, who are deservedly possessed of the esteem and confidence 

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of His Majesty's subjects, to yield so much to the advice of his 
servants here, as to dispense with this matter of form, which can- 
not now be observed, but at the expense of substantial incon- 
veniences, and the loss of which, if it is thought to be of value 
enough, may be redeemed at any other season, when the circum- 
stances of affairs shall be more apt, the disposition of the 
Parliament shall have been tried and known, and the temper of 
the people better prepared to receive it. Other bills are now 
preparing of more material import than those already certified, in 
which we confess that the form of the proceedings was alone con- 
sidered, although if the causes contained in the bills upon the 
calling of the last Parliament were to be examined according to 
their strict value, they might also have been said to have been 
insufficient. But the council as it is now constituted, do not 
propose to transmit those or any bills, until it is in some way 
intimated, whether there may not be such material causes offered 
as will be deemed sufficient, although the usuage for many years 
past should not be literally observed. But if that indulgence 
cannot upon any consideration be obtained, and a Money Bill 
must in all events be certified, We, as Lords Justices, must now 
with the deepest concern that can be felt by men, declare to your 
Grace, that we cannot set our hands to that certificate, and there- 
fore, as it is not in our intention to obstruct, although it is not 
in our power to perform that service ; and as the signatures of the 
Chief Governors to such certificate is by law necessary to make 
it effectual, we do, upon the most serious and sober considerations, 
request of your Grace, if this measure must be executed, to remove 
that obstacle, recommending to His Majesty some other person or 
persons to take the charge out of our hands, and that the Com- 
mission by which we are empowered to act may be superseded. 
We are not so infatuated as to be blind to the consequences which 
may follow to ourselves upon this step, which we are driven by 
necessity to take, nor to the construction which our conduct may 
receive ; and it must surely be a very urgent necessity that drives 
us to it. If this were a premeditated purpose, the result of 
artifice and intrigue, we should hardly have pitched upon this 
time, when the whole body of all His Majesty's subjects, and we 
with the foremost of them, are joining with one voice and mind, 
in the admiration of his royal virtues, and endeavouring, as we 
have been within our narrow sphere, to lay a foundation for the 
future honour and quiet of Government : we should not, we must 
repeat to your Grace, have chosen this time for exposing ourselves 
to the danger of being represented to His Majesty as deviating 
from the strict path of duty in any article ; but our own integrity 
must be our support, and we are convinced, in our own consciences, 
that we give a more substantial evidence of our duty and attach- 
ment to His Majesty, by offering in these circumstances to retire 
from his service, than we could do by continuing in stations, after 
we are deprived of all the weight, credit, esteem, and confidence 



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that ought to attend them. There is no doubt but that this would 
be our condition if we were to recede from our unanimous opinion, 
when it shall be evident to all who know us, that nothing has 
intervened that could influence our judgments or rectify our 
mistakes, with respect to the point itself, as we have been obliged 
to declare to the Privy Council, (to clear ourselves from the 
suspicion of concealing information from them,) that your Grace 
had not been pleased to honour us with any communication upon 
it. As we cannot carry our views beyond this kingdom, we are 
not to judge how far any civil struggles here, may call for the 
attention of His Majesty's council in England ; but when we fore- 
see troubles and animosities likely to arise, and we have had in 
our own time such experience of the very bad effects of the long 
duration of national ill-humour; we hope it will not be thought 
indecent in us, to persist in advising as long as we have a right to 
offer advice, that some allowance may be made by His Majesty's 
Ministers, for the difference of the state of this kingdom in the 
present time, from the low, unsettled, weak and depopulated con- 
dition of it, even at the time of the Revolution ; and that the 
temper of administration, though the constitution remains the same, 
might in some respects be accommodated to this change. If it shall 
happen hereafter that our apprehensions were without foundation, 
we shall with reason be condemned as having taken a very false 
measure of the tender of the country, with the care of which we 
have been intrusted ; but if it should happen otherwise, we may 
still have it in our power, and we shall certainly have it in our 
inclinations, to give such proofs as cannot be questioned, of our 
loyalty, duty, and inviolable affection to His Majesty, by appearing 
in the support of the honour and dignity of His Majesty's Crown 
and Government, by steadily maintaining the true legal con- 
stitutional depency of this kingdom upon Great Britain, and by 
using such influence as we may retain, in composing those 
animosities and divisions, which we have great reason to fear it 
will be difficult to prevent. 

The following Judgment of Lord Chancellor Lord Bowes, 
related to the Earl of Ely, of a now extinct elder branch of 
the present Marquis's family. He had been alleged to be 
insane, but was found on inquisition to be of sound mind. 

11 February, 1767. — In Chancery. 

Lord Chancellor. — I am under great difficulty in this case ; it 
is of more importance and consequence than I ever knew in a 
court. The value of the property is very great, but the conse- 
quence of it as to the subject is of much greater importance. 

It is unfortunate that we have not here the assistance of what 
hath been done in cases of this kind on the other side of the 
water. This undoubtedly is the first instance here, and I think 
no instance is produced to show, that a finding in this case against 



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the Crown hath been set aside : — an attempt to set it aside must 
make the judge, to whom the application is made, well consider 
the consequences that may attend it. 

If the words unsound mind have a legal signification, this 
inquisition having returned Lord Ely of sound mind, to send this 
matter to a farther enqiiiry, would be a departure from the legal 
import of that expression, and give an open for the construction 
contended for, that by unsound mind is not meant a deprivation 
of the faculties of reason, but a degree of weakness. If that 
comes to be the question, what a scene is opened ? If the Crown 
in right of the prerogative can issue commissions, to try whether 
the party be of sufficient understanding to manage himself this 
affair, how vague and uncertain is that, and what an open is given 
to invade the liberty of the subject and the rights of property? 
I own my private sense is, that unsound mind does not relate to 
a degree of weakness, but incapacity, and I think if we go a little 
back, and consider the prerogative on which it is vested in the 
Crown, we may throw light upon this subject, and clear the way 
to the legal construction of these words unsound mind. 

The prerogative of the Crown is to take care of those that are un- 
able to take care of themselves, founded on the general principle of 
the king being the common parent. And therefore when any sub- 
jects are incapable of taking care of themselves, that task devolves 
on the Crown ; it is a prerogative, I apprehend, entirely, calculated 
for the good of the people. It is for the benefit of the unhappy 
person who is the subject of that particular inquiry ; and to me it 
seems very probable, that neither the Crown nor any other person 
was in contemplation of that prerogative, with regard to profit and 
benefit. In consequence of finding unsoundnesss of mind, there 
may be a consequential benefit arising to the Crown, an acci- 
dental advantage to the people, but they are not the primary 
object. 

The use of this prerogative of the Crown, is to prevent a 
mischief to the unfortunate person who cannot take care of 
himself. The consequential benefit to the Crown from the custody 
of the estate, where the party is found of unsound mind from 
nativity, does not arise from a prerogative relating to the custody 
of the person, but from the same kind of principle on which an 
escheat is founded ; a profit arising out of an estate, to which no 
person has a right ; for an idiot from nativity is supposed to 
remain in that condition till death ; therefore the profits of his 
estate devolve to the king, as the common original of all. This 
seems to be the foundation of the consequential benefit to the 
Crown upon a finding of idiocy from nativity. 'Where the un- 
soundness of mind is accidental, which presupposes a prior sanity, 
and that it may again return — in that case there may be a dis- 
position by the party, when returned to sanity, or before while 
sane ; and therefore the king takes the right as a trustee account- 
able, and not in his own right. 



I: is true the books and register of writs have mentioned con- 
sequential advantages arising from this exertion of prerogative, 
as, that it will prevent alienation, that there will be no disherison ; 
but these are consequences which only flow from such a finding 
as carries with it an evidence of a capacity to alien. 

-as never known that there was an applicant for such a 
commisssion. on account of the interest the petitioners had which 
might be affected. The application is always on behalf of the 
person ; and I think if there was not this restriction upon the 
Lse of the prerogative the whole economy, if I may use the 
expression, of the law would be overturned. 

law has wisely provided against fraud, imposition and 

: of all kinds, and against those acts that may draw in weak 

persons to dissipate their property ; but then it has relation to 

particular acts that must stand or fall by their circumstances : 

it proceeds not on the general principle of prerogative. 

ay day's observation presents persons in possession of pro 
perty. who. you may clearly say, have not a capacity to manage, 
but are a prey for art and fraud : yet the remedy is not by appli- 
_ to titie prerogative : nor does our law know, what the civil 
law admits o£ curatores, which might do very well in a con- 
stitution formed like the Roman, calculated for war and grandeur, 
not for commerce, and the change necessarv in a commercial 
state : they went on other views and principles, and curatores 
might be proper to prevent extravagance and dissipation. But 
this introduced into England would be justly exclaimed against, 
and subversive of the fundamental interest of the king. 

I own the consideration of the interest of the person in re- 
mainder after an estate tail has very little weight with ma I 
should be sorry to take from an unhappy subject the benefit of 
this part of the prerogative, which was certainly originally cal- 
culated for the subject's benefit. But I should be much more 
sorry to extend this prerogative to other objects than the law 
hath intended it. For in what light must I consider the subjects 
of these kingdoms, if suggestions of weakness are a foundation 
for the king to take the person and property of the subject into 
his hands ? Who is to be trusted with the power of issuing such 
commissions ? Where is the jury, or set of men of abilities 
and properties necessary to determine questions of such a nature ; 
an honest conscientious man would be frightened at it ! 

The dominion over his own property is the blessing and happi- 
ness of a man living in free societies. The law allows alienation 
by people extremely weak, who are not capable of reasoning 
but on a particular thing happening to be then before them. 
In the case of wills : a man is making a will, in extremis, and 
as incapable of reading two skins of parchment as an Hebrew 
Bible : but if he knows that the consequence of that act, will 
be a disposing to one he likes, and from one he does not like, that 
will cannot be overturned, and yet there is the greatest inca- 
piii-irv. 

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I am very desirous of doing what is right, and cautious of doing 
what is wrong. Can 1 possibly be furnished with proceedings 
that shall give further light 1 I should not have a difficulty in 
postponing it, if I thought that could be done ; unless a difficulty 
on the first motion made on the part of Lord Ely. 

This inquest, if it cannot be set aside, must certainly remain, 
altho' another enquiry should be awarded ; but while it remains, 
is it not evident, that the person found neither an idiot, nor of 
unsound mind, ought not to be deprived of a dominion over his 
property. Can a supposition that it may be determined other- 
wise, justify my depriving the subject of that constitutional 
right he has over his own property, and making use of it if he 
pleases 1 And yet, if in fact, it should be so, there may be an 
abuse. 

I cannot but take notice that the order of the 20th of July, 
1759, was certainly made on special reasons, and not on general 
principles of equity. The special reasons were these. The court 
had required the personal attendance of the present Lord Ely, then 
a minor. He was detained from paving obedience, or rather his 
father was guilty of a contempt in disobeying the order of the 
court Therefore the court was under an absolute necessity 
to make that order, to prevent what they could not have remedied. 
And while that reason subsisted that order was right. But could 
an order of that kind be made in a cause in Chancery before the 
hearing] I think it would be a stretch of power to continue that 
order upon anything now appearing before me. This order niust 
be discharged, and as to the other motion, I desire that it may 
stand over so that I may receive such further light concerning it 
as the nature of the thing will admit. 

The station I have the honour to hold would be insupportable, 
if questions of this kind were often so litigated before the court . 

Council for Mr. Rockfort. — We desire that the suffering the 
recovery should be subject to further order of the court, as any 
other judgment would be. 

Lord Chancellor. — I am extremely cautious of doing acts of 
power that I cannot justify. 

In 1740 Mr. Armar had been appointed, with Mr. 
John Rynd, of Derryvolan, and the Rev. William Leslie, 
of Nutfield, trustee for some incumbered property, 
belonging to James King, esq., of Gola, in Fermanagh 
(including a townland called DrumharifT), and in Dublin 
including a large timber house, called the Brazen Head in 
Bride-street, a house in Essex-street, known as the Three 
Nags' Heads, some premises on the east side of Ussher's- 
lane tenanted by Quayle Somerville, esq., Hugh Kyle, and 
the Elders of the Meeting House built thereon, and premises 
in the Corn Market and Lamb-alley. A deed of re 
relating to this matter contained various papers enclosed, 



22D 



and amongst them ajetter from William Gore, who appears 
to have been brother-in-law to Mr. King, and who was a 
cousin of Sir Ralph Gore's, of Belleisle (which propert}' 
Mr. Armar had managed during the minority of his elder 
brother). 

From this letter I extract the following : — 

"Dublin, April 8th, 1749. 

" Dear Sir, — For your last as well as your former favours, I 
can only return you my sincere thanks, and honestly own I 
despair of ever being out of your debt, though I think I do not 
want gratitude. I have wrote to Nat Clements, who (I hope) is 
by this time in London, and given him a hint of the beef and 
mutton, which probably Sir Ralph will never think of, till he and 
his friends are to sit down and eat it up. The last accounts we 
had of Sir Ralph were, that he intended coming to Ireland from 
the Newmarket meeting ; however, in my private opinion I think 
we shall not see him till ye latter end of May." 

Sir Ralph Gore owned a black horse, called Othello, 
which is included in a set of portraits (coloured prints) of 
race horses of that day, with their performances, and the 
armorial bearings of their owners, and which are on an 
old screen at Castle Coole. The rest of the screen contains 
some old-fashioned stable and sporting prints. And on the 
reverse side are some spirited hunting scenes, &c, painted 
in oils. This Ralph was the son of the former Chancellor 
of the Exchequer, and succeeded his elder brother in the 
baronetcy in 1746. He was present at the battle of 
JafFeldt* on the 2nd June, 1747. Although only a captain, 
the command of the battalion devolved on him owing to 
all his superior officers becoming hors de combat ; and the 
day following he received the thanks of the Duke of 
Cumberland at the head of his regiment. He was created 
Baron Gore in 1764, Viscount Belleisle 1768, and Earl of 
Ross 1771. In 1788, being then a Lieutenant-General, he 
was appointed Commander-in-Chief in Ireland in the 
absence of Lieut. -General Pitt. He died in 1802 when the 
peerage became extinct ; his son, Viscount Belleisle, having 
predeceased him. The baronetcy passed to his nephew. 
Sir Ralph St. George Gore succeeded to it on the death of 
his cousin, December 31st, 1878. Lord Arran is in the re- 
mainder to it. I think Wm. Gore, the writer of the above 
letter, must have been the future Bishop of Limerick, and 
son of the Dean Gore who once lived at Bonnybrooka 

The recitals in the following deed show the position of the 
Corry family in 1765. Martha was dead, but the three other 

* Vide Burke's Peerage 



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sisters were still living, and Elizabeth was married for the 
second time, her husband James Leslie* being a nephew 
of Martha's husband. It wo aid appear from this that Mr. 
and Mrs. Lowry had succeeded to the Longford and Lough- 
side estates when Martha died in 1759, but they certainly did 
not take the name of Corry until after Edmond Leslie 
Corry's death in 1764 or 1765, as is proved by the list of 
Members in the Journals of the House of Commons. They 
obtained from Ulster's office in Dublin a certificate as to their 
right to quarter the Corry arms, which is in my possession. 

The indenture was in four parts, and dated 3rd June, 
1765. It was between the Right Hon. Arthur Trevor and 
Margetson Armar of the first part ; James Leslie, of 
Stranocum, county Antrim, acting executor of the will of 
Edmund Leslie Corry, of the second part ; Galbraith and 
Sarah Lowry Corry of the third part; and Thomas 
Gledstanes, of Fardrop, county Tyrone, of the fourth part. 

It recited the marriage settlement of Edmond Leslie and 
Martha Corry, dated 30th June, 1738, and that it was 
amongst other things agreed that £2,000, Martha's portion, 
should be vested in Arthur Trevor, then Arthur Hill, and 
Margetson Armar, in trust that they should invest it on 
sound security, and to pay the interest to Edmond Leslie 
for his life. After his death to pay the principal and interest 
amongst his daughters and younger sons (if any). Or if 
there should be no younger children, to pay the principal 
to himself, his executors or assigns. And that whereas 
Leslie Corry did, in order to secure payment of the said 
portion, with the consent of the said Edmond Leslie 
(Corry) about 30th June, 1738, execute to Arthur 
Trevor (then Hill), and Margetson Armar a bond for 
£4,000, conditioned for the payment of £2,000, upon which 
judgment was afterwards obtained against Leslie Corry in 
in Trinity Term 1739 ; and that by the death of Leslie 
Corry without issue, Edmond and Martha Leslie Corry, 
had become seized in Martha's right of lands (named) in 
Longford and Fermanagh, and of two lots of ground, called 
Nos. 94 and 95 in Queen-street, in Oxmantown, in the 
suburbs of the city of Dublin, held in fee-farm from the 
Governors of the Blue Coat Boys' Hospital, in the said city, 
" whereon several houses and tenements have been erected 
by virtue of and under the limitations of the will of John 
Corry, esq., deceased," subject to two sums of £500 each, 
charged and in favour of Mary Armar alias Corry, one of 

* The pedigree of the Leslie family of Ballybay will be found in Mr. Shirleys 
History of Monaghan. 



£ 


s. d. 


. 300 





. 500 





. 200 





. 100 





. 300 





. 300 






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Martha's sisters, and also of two further sums of £500 each, 
charged in favour of Elizabeth Corry, now the wife of James 
Leslie, for their respective fortunes.* It then recited the 
two before mentioned deeds of 1742, to which Edward 
Matthewes was a party, and further that Martha had died 
without issue in the lifetime of Edmond Leslie Corry, and 
that upon her death the lands and premises charged with 
these sums became vested in ( her sister ) Sarah and her 
husband Galbraith Lowry Corry ; and that Edmond Leslie 
Corry having survived his wife and having no issue by her, 
became entitled to the four several sums of £500 which 
constituted her fortune of £2,000 ; and being so entitled 
made his will dated 2nd October, 1759, and directed to be 
paid out of the £2,000 to— 

His Nephew, Samuel Leslie, 

„ Edmond Leslie, . 
,, Andrew Hamilton, 
„ Edmond Hamilton, 
Niece, Margaret Benson, 
„ Penelope Hamilton, 
Nephews, Henry Leslie and James Leslie 
parties to these presents, and the sur- 
vivor and his executors in trust to the 
uses therein mentioned, . 300 

in all £2,000 ; and that Thomas Gledstanes had agreed to 
advance £2,000 upon an assignment of the said securities 
(as in Matthewes' deed). Therefore Arthur Trevor, Margetson 
Armar, and James Leslie, had granted the said securities to 
Thomas Gledstanes, with the usual covenants. Galbraith 
Lowry Corry indemnified Trevor and Armar and Leslie. 
This deed is signed by Margetson Armar, James Leslie, and 
Galbraith Lowry Corry. 

Before finishing my history of Mr. Armar, I have still to 
notice his acquisition of the Church lands estate, which 
constituted a valuable property in itself. The Corry family 
had for a long time held some townlands belonging to the 
see of Clogher, in the neighbourhood of Castlecoole, but as 
subtenants either under Sir Ralph Gore, or at one time 
under a subtenant of the Gore family, Chambery Brabazon 
esq. ;+ and these did not include the townland of Breandrum 
which lies between Enniskillen and Castlecoole and part of 
which is now in the demense. Sir Michael Cole, in fact, at one 

* Vide page 1 76, for the will of John Corry, esq. 

\ Vide the deed of mortgage, dated Dec. 5th, 1713, p. 162. 



m 

time held Breandrum under the Gore family. The arrange- 
ment with the Bishop of Clogher was this. The Bishop 
granted to the principal tenants leases for twenty-one years 
certain. But generally at the end of a shorter period the 
tenant surrendered his lease, and took out a fresh one for a 
new term of twenty-one years, paying a fine. This operation 
was repeated as long as the Bishop and the tenant agreed 
to do so. Sometimes, however, a rather young Bishop 
might prefer "to run his life against the tenant." He 
refused to take a surrender, and had to forego the fines for 
the remainder of the lease. If he died or was translated 
before the end of the term, he was a loser and the tenant a 
gainer, by the amount of the fines. But if he remained in 
the see till the lease expired, at the end of the term he 
resumed possession of the land, and probably put in a mem- 
ber of his own family. In this way Bishop's families have 
been perpetuated in their old dioceses. But assuming that 
the Bishop renewed periodically with his principal tenant ; 
that person generally did the same with his immediate sub- 
tenants, who held by what were termed toties quoties leases, 
Under these leasehold sub-tenants, when there was no 
demesne, came usually the ordinary farmers. The Corry 
family and Mr. Armar must have held hitherto by mere 
toties quoties leases, lands partly in, and most essential to 
Castlecoole demesne, including part of the Oak avenue 
leading from the Dublin road to the hall door. This has 
all been greatly modified by an Act passed in or prior to 183.9. 
Tenants who held see lands were, under certain conditions, 
enabled to buy up the fines and obtain perpetuities at a 
head rent. This was done in the case of my estate, the 
toties quoties tenants providing their share of the money in 
proportion to the benefit each received. And by the Irish 
Church Act of 1869, holders of perpetuities can if they please 
redeem their head rents at twenty-five years' purchase, 
paying one-fourth down, and the balance by sixty-four half 
yearly instalments, which redeems principal and interest. 
Mr. Armar had a valuation made by Mr. Andrew Nixon 
when purchasing Sir Ralph Gore's interest. The valua- 
tion is in detail, and shows an estimate of the value, as well 
as Sir Ralph's rent, often much below the valuation. For 
instance, Mr. Armar's own valuation was £664 12s. 6c/., for 
the townlands he held, whilst his rent to Sir Ralph Gore 
was only £162 15s. His estimated profit therefore was 
£501 per annum ; and this putting good land at from seven 
shillings up to fifteen shillings an acre. Breandrum, contain- 



233 



ing seventy-eight acres, which had been Sir M.Cole's, but was 
held subsequently by Messrs. Gratton and Cole, was held 

£ 



s. d. 



93 12 



Entirely now by the heirs Charles Gratton, esq., 
and joyns the Gallows Green of Enniskilling, 
which considered can't be worth less than £1 4s. 
per acre, and amounts to 

Rossory, held by Charles Gratton's heirs, is part 
good and part bad, but at an average is worth 
18 shillings per acre, and amounts to, . 



" Sir Ralph's present rent, . 

118 8 
After making a survey and valuation in detail, Mr. 
Nixon concluded as follows : 

" Estimate of the value of Sir Ralph Gore's Bishop's lease in 
the Diocese of Clogher and county of Fermanagh, from which 
deduct the rent paid by Sir Ralph Gore to the See. 



64 


16 





158 


8 





40 









Henry Brooke, esq., A. . 






£ s. 

248 6 


d. 



Widow West, B. 


. 




28 8 





Alexr. Nobble's heirs, C. 






81 16 





Robert Graham, D. 


t 




36 





David Rynd, esq., E. 






139 11 





Margetson Armar, esq., F. 






664 12 


6 


Widow Cashell, G. 






70 





Widow Dane, H. 






134 10 





Chas. Grattan, esq., heir, I. 


, 




158 8 





Jason Crawford, esq., K. 


. 




32 





Thomas Rynd, esq., L. . 


. 




31 10 





Jason Crawford and James Armstrong 






esqrs., M. 


. 




58 16 





Mr. William Scott, N. . 






95 8 





Rev. Mr. Carson, 0. 


. 




40 





Mr. John Legg, P. 






16 





Mr. David Robeson for Buchanan, 


Q. 


16 





Widow Spear, R. 






26 8 





Do., S. 


, 




37 8 


6 


Chrisr. Irwin, esq., T. 


. 




. 419 3 





Widow Atchison for Coughran, U. 




41 5 





Goy. (Guy) Carleton's heir, 


and 


Chris 






Carleton, esq., V. 






. 358 18 





Nicholas Archdall, esq , X. 


• 




31 10 







2,837 14 





Deduct the Bishop's rent, 






. 399 


0* 



.£399 included agent's fees. 



£2,438 14 



234 

"I have to observe that a handsome abatement ought to be 
made the Purchasers of the foregoing Lease, for these reasons, 
viz., are subject to whatever raise rent the Bishop of Clogher may 
think fit to raise them to ; and besides run the risque of a Bishop 
not renewing at all, and besides I understand there are Eleven 
years yet unexpired of their Tenures. Add to this that, suppose 
their Terms expired, these Lands can never set (at least 
ought not), at so high a rate as an Inheritance, where a 
Tenant may be sure of his own Life ; whereas the most he can 
have of these lands is Twenty or Twenty-one years ; yet as trans- 
mitted to me, I have valued it at the present Intrinsick value, and 
[as] an inheritance compaired with other countries. Dated Febr*. 
ye 24, 1753. 

" Signed, Andrew Nixox." 

From another valuation (ud dated), this estate seems to 
have contained 6,105J profitable Irish acres, and 1,238 use- 
less ones — as they were called — 7,343 \ in all, equal to about 
11,896 statute acres. A good many of the useless acres 
were, no doubt, improvable. 

The following letter from Mr. Brooke has been preserved 
with these valuations : — 

" COLEBROOKE. 

"October the 7th, 1763." 

" Dear Sir, — It gave me concern that I had it not in my 
power to spend some days with you before I left the country, but 
I had so much business at home and my time is so short, that I 
must be debarred from that Pleasure. I did mean to have sent a 
message to you before I left the country, that it is not in my power 
to renew my lease ; it comes to more money than I really could 
or should wish to raise at present ; I am certain it will turn out 
much better for you. I am extremely obliged to you, for the 
kindness and friendship you have shown, in offering it to me at 
the rate you purchased, and you may depend on any assistance I 
can give you in letting it, I beg you will make my best compli- 
ments to Mrs. Armar. 

"I am, Dear Sir, 

u Your very faithfull, and affect, hble servt., 

" A. W. Brooke. 

" I hope you will allow me to remain your tenant for Billy 
Hill. You shall name the rent. 

" It would also oblige me much, and save me a great deal of 
trouble if you would let me be your tenant also for the Grist of 
those lands, and oblige the Tenants to grind att my mills." 



235 

Some of the lands included in this estate were at a dis- 
tance from Castlecoole. Feddans near Garvery was then 
held by Widow West. 

Of Lemovreslin (Leambreslin), Mr. David Rynd was the 
principal tenant. It was "computed 90 acres, inhabited 
by snug little Farmers, lyes within 3 miles of Enniskilling 
on the great road thereto, from Lisbelew, worth 8s. per acre, 
£36." Of Derryvullan, it was stated, " David Rynd, esq., 
lives therein, has laid out considerable sums in improvements, 
such as dwelling-house, offices and gardens, fitt for a man 
of five hundred pounds a year, which with 60 acres of said 
farm at 15s., I deem worth £45 per year. 

Breandrum and Rossory (the former adjoining, the other 
near Enniskillen, on opposite sides of Lough Erne), had 
been in the tenancy of the Cole family, but was then in 
that of the heirs of Charles Grattan, esq. Breandrum was 
valued at £1 4s. ; Rossory at 18s. an acre. 

Derrycharra, close to Enniskillen, was held by Mr. Wm. 
Scott, and was valued at 18s. an acre. 

Killyhevlin, Drumsna, and the eel weir "in the gutt 
sands," of Lough Erne, near the present Sligo Railway 
bridge, were in the tenancy of Mrs. Dane, and continued 
in that family until within recent years. Killyhevlin was 
valued at £1 4s. ; Drumsna at 12s. an acre; and the eel- 
weir at £15. 

The eelweir has disappeared for a good many years, 
but within living memory. 

Nicholas Archdale, esq., held Knock Island. 

This Church Land estate was kept together until 1851, 
when it was sold in the Encumbered Estates Court. 
Several townlands near Castlecoole were, however, pur- 
chased by members of the family and resold to me. I also 
bought again the townlands of Cavanacross and Feddans, 
but after a few years I resold them, together with Mullin- 
askea. I also sold a head-rent out of Derryvore. The rest 
I still retain. Part of Breandrum, however, was not resold 
to me, and belongs to my cousin Mr. Armar Corry. Upon 
this the Infirmary and the Enniskillen Model School are 
situate. The site of the new Enniskillen cemetery is on 
what was my part of Breandrum. 

Mr. Armar about this time had maps made of some of 
the church lands near Castlecoole — Breandrum, and as 
much of Killenure as was not then included in the demesne 
were then in townparks — Breandrum had been surveyed 
prior to the purchase, by Mr. Armar's order, November 16, 
1750. 



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The following were the tenants : 



No. 1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5. 

6. 

7. 

8. 

9. 
10. 
11. 

12. 
13. 
14. 

15. 

16. 

17. 
18. 
19. 
20. 
21. 
22. 
23. 
24. 
25. 
26. 
27. 



Tenants. 

Finlay's arable, 

Rev. Dr. Dunkin, arable. 

Another part of Dr. Dunkin's, 

Mr. Spear, arable, . 

Mr. Eccles, being part of Mr. Spear'i 

arable, .... 

Phare's park, arable, 
The park next Mr. M'Nabb's arable 
A meadow, .... 
Bell and Fleming, arable, 
Corr's Hill, Bell and Fleming, 
Corr's garden, with small green plot 

adjoining, .... 
Cassidy's garden, 
Piper's garden, 
Camp park and part next town, Dr 

Dunkin's arable, .... 
Camp park, middle part, Dr. Dunkin's 

arable, .... 

Camp park, part next round Lough 

Dr. Dunkin's, 
Rosse's garden, 

Busby and Watson's arable, . 
Busby and Watson's arable, 
Busby alone, arable, 
Mr. Cathcart, arable, 
Flanagan's Lough Park, arable, 
Watson's arable, 
Mr. Spear's arable, 
Mr. Spear's arable, 
David Bell, arable and reclaimed bog, 
The part cut off next commons by 

the small runner, David Bell, 

arable, ..... 



A. K. P. 

1 3 27 

4 2 26 

4 11 

7 4 



2 19 
21 



37 
10 



28 






7 

31 



1 2 
1 1 13 



18 
2 25 

1 8 
12 
14 



35 
12 

6 
14 
16 





1 1 25 



75 3 19 



Of Killenure parks there are two surveys. One was made in 
Leslie Cony's time; the second is undated, but was evidently 
made by the same person as that of Breandrum. The two 
surveys were made without reference to each other. All the 
tenants were changed in the interval; in the first survey they 
are M'Nab, Colgin, Clarke, Elliott, Halloran, and Rankin ; in 
the second George Bell, Mr. Howard, the Grahams, William 
Chittick, Alexander Orr, and James Lavy. The Graham 
family are still in the same holding, and, next to Wilson of 



237 

KUlyvilly, are the oldest family on the estate holding the 
farm in the same name. 

In the year 175 i (22nd January) the Rev. Richard 
Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, lent the sum of £8,000 
to Margetson Armar and Galbraith Lowry, at four and a 
half per cent., secured by a mortgage upon the lands of 
Brackagh, Camgart, Drumcorr, Lurganclabby, Mullaghsilli- 
gagh, Largy, Ballyreagh, Dnmiderg, Lissan, Modena, Toppid 
Mountain, Moysnaght, Ramally, Drumnameal, and Furnas. 
It is not unlikely that this money was applied to the pur- 
chase of the Church lands lease. 

A reconveyance made on the 3rd May, 1783, recites the 
mortgage of 1754, and that Dr. Baldwin by his will, dated 
21st September, 1758, had left the sum of £24,000, due to 
him by several mortgages, to the Provost, Fellows and 
Scholars of Trinity College, and had appointed them his 
residuary legatees, and had appointed William Clements, 
Doctor of Physic, and James Agar, to be his executors. That 
James Agar had renounced, and that William Clements had 
proved the will. That the latter was lately dead, and that 
his widow, Mary Clements, had been appointed his adminis- 
tratrix, and of the unadministered goods of Dr. Baldwin. 
That she had made over her interest in the lands to the 
Provost, &c, and that A.rmar, Baron Belmore, had paid off 
the mortgage, and was entitled to the equity of redemption. 
He accordingly obtained a reconveyance, signed by — 

Thos. Wilson. R. Murray, Vice-Provost. 

John Kearney. H. Dalrae. 

H. USSHER. 

G. Fitzgerald. 

In presence of 
Michael Reilly. 
Richard Ooombe. 



In presence of 

ton, ~j 



William Hamilton, ~| j, 

Michael Reilly, 



On the 5th May, 1768, Mr. Armar made his will. This 
document recites that Leslie Corry did by his last will, 
dated 13th February, 1740, bequeath to him for ever the 



238 

towns and lands following, viz., Agharenagh, the Deerpark, 
Coneyburrough, Kedagh, Rossyvulland, Killyvilly, North 
Carrow M'Mea, South Carrow M'Mea, Mullagh M'Thomas, 
Bonnybrooke, Tullyharn, Glasmullagh, Drumcrow, Killy- 
reagh, Kilnamaddy, Killygrane, Kilsallagh, Gar very, Lesson, 
Largey, Near Ballyreagh,Far Ballyreagh,lnnisleague,Toppid 
Mountain, Tyralton, Drumderge, Tullynephin, Moddena, 
Drumcor, Camgart, Lurganclabby, Ramallin, Brockagh, 
Moisnaght, Mullaghsilligagh, Clentillon, the tenements and 
parks in and about Enniskillen, and the Mills of Castlecoole 
and Clabby, subject to such debts and legacies as were 
therein particularly mentioned ; and that he was seized in 
fee-simple of the manor of Blessingbourne, consisting of, the 
town of Blessingbourne, commonly called Five Miletown,Cor- 
crevy,Mullanboy,Moorland,Brakely,Ardclea,Timpony,Bally- 
vaddin, Beagh, Tateanellan, Collintrough, Gortmore, Relessy, 
Cullymore, (?)Tlercar, Ahekencon, half Loghermore, Mullagh- 
more, half Renally Domain, Aunagh, Mulnavoal, Tumis, 
and the mills situate in the counties of Fermanagh, and 
Tyrone; he devises them to Lord Mountflorence, of Florence 
Court, and Sir Arthur Brooke, baronet, in trust; subject to 
such legacies and incumbrances as are hereafter mentioned, 
and to any legacies he may hereafter charge by any codicil 
to his will, which legacies he charges on the estate left to 
him by Leslie Cony, and not on his Tyrone estate. He 
leaves all the lands for the use of his wife Mary Armar, 
during the term of her natural life ; with remainder 
to any (if any) of his and her children in the usual order ; 
failing such issue, he bequeaths the Fermanagh lands to any 
heir male of his wife by another husband. Failing such 
issue to Sarah Lowry Corry, now the eldest sister of Leslie 
Corry, for her life, and after her death to the use of Armar 
Lowry Corry for life, with remainder to his heirs male ; 
Jailing them, to any other son of Sarah ; failing whom, to 
the use of Elizabeth Leslie otherwise Elizabeth Corry, for 
life, with remainder to her only son (by her first husband) 
Archibald Hamilton and his heirs male ; or any other elder 
son of Elizabeth in default of such heirs; failing such to 
Lady Mountflorence for life, with remainder to her eldest 
son John Willoughby Cole and his heirs male ; failing whom 
to her other sons and their heirs male, in order of birth ; 
failing whom to the daughters of Sarah; failing whom 
to the daughters of his wife by any other husband; 
failing whom to the daughters of Archibald Hamilton ; 
failing whom to the daughters of Anne, Lady Mount- 
florence ; failing whom to the daughters of John Willoughby 



239 

Cole ; failing whom to the right heirs of Leslie Corry 
for ever. The persons who may inherit the lands which be- 
longed to Leslie Corry, are as soon as they conveniently 
can, to take the name of Oorry, and in case any such person 
refuses to do so, the lands are to pass to the next person in 
the remainder. Armar Lowry Corry, Archibald Hamilton, 
and John Willoughby Cole, as they may be severally in 
possession of the lands, may charge them with sums not 
exceeding £200 a year for a jointure, and £2,000 for younger 
children : and they may make leases of all the lands except 
the Domain, for a term not exceeding thirty-one years or 
three lives, without tine, at the best rent that may be 
obtained, He charges the estate with an annuity for his 
niece Mary Lowry Corry of £200, as long as she shall con- 
tinue unmarried ; and after his wife's death the person who 
may have succeeded to the estate is to pay her an annuity 
of £500 so long as she shall continue unmarried. 

As concerning the Blessingbourne estate, he bequeaths 
the same to Lord Mountflorence and Sir Arthur Brooke, in 
trust for the use of his nephew Hugh Montgomery for life, 
with remainder to his heirs male ; and in default of such, to 
his nephew Alexander Gordon for life, with a like remainder. 
Failing heirs male, to the daughters of Montgomery and 
Gordon successively ; with like leasing powers as before. 

As to all his debts or mortgages and legacies, he directs 
them to be paid out of the proceeds of his personal fortune ; 
or if that is not sufficient, then out of the estate which had 
been Leslie Corry 's. He leaves the sum of £10 for ever to 
the poor of the parishes of Enniskillen and Derry vullen, to 
be paid by the persons in possession of the estate, in the 
manner they may judge proper. He leaves his sister 
Elizabeth Montgomery £1,000. To his nephew Captain 
Alexander Gordon £1,000 ; to his careful friend Mrs. Mary 
Tate £20 ; to his faithful and careful servants Richard 
Magennis and Sarah Martin, to each of them £100. To his 
faithful servant Christopher Armstrong £20. To such of 
his servants as his wife and executrix shall think deserving, 
one year's wages. To his nephews Hugh Montgomery and 
Alexander Gordon, such horses as his executrix shall not 
find it convenient to keep. He bequeaths the arms of dif- 
ferent kinds now in his own room, and those only, to his 
three nephews, Armar Lowry Corry, Hugh Montgomery and 
Alexander Gordon, to be divided among them. He leaves 
his books to his wife Mary Armar and to Mary Lowry, 
and entreats them to give to the B,everend Mr. Gorley, such 
as may not be useful to them. He leaves his watch to his 



240 

nephew Alexander Gordon. Signed in presence of Giffd. 
Nesbitt, William Bourke, and J ohn Dowdall. 

On the 22nd April, 1773, he made a codicil. He refers 
to his will, and says that he has disposed of his freehold and 
leasehold estates " in such a manner as I expect will be 
agreeable," and that whereas the infirmities which he had 
for a long time been labouring under, had increased upon 
him since the beginning of last winter, by which he had 
been prevented from looking into any affairs with that pre- 
cision and exactness which he would always willingly do, 
and was even rendered incapable of using his pen; yet 
hoping for a favourable return of such abilities as used to 
attend him, though infirm and now within these few years, 
being in all human probability precluded of that likelihood, 
and sensible of his increasing weakness ; he embraces this 
opportunity of making some small additions and alterations 
to his will, which he intended to have done in a more re- 
gular manner, but for the reasons already assigned, and 
which he now does in the following manner : — First, it is 
his additional will that the old Domain of Castlecoole 
together with the house, garden and deerpark after the 
demise of Mrs. Armar and her sister Mrs. Sarah Lowry, 
widow, shall become and continue the property of Mary 
Lowry Corry, daughter of the said Sarah, during her natural 
life and no longer. And also (he wills) " that the room 
commonly called my room with its furniture, except as 
hereinafter excepted," shall immediately after his decease 
belong to the said Mary, during her life and no longer ; but 
that the arms in the said room of whatsoever kind, together 
with all the law books and such as may contribute to the 
forming and instructing a magistrate, and the several editions 
of the Classics, shall be at the sole use and disposal of his 
nephew Hugh Montgomery. That Mrs. Armar and the said 
Mary shall choose whatsoever of the other books they please 
for their several uses, and the remainder be given to the 
Rev. Dr. Thomas M'Donnell.* Also that whatever demand 
Mrs. Armar may have or appear to have against Dr. M'Donnell 
be cancelled and given up. 

He also bequeaths to his sister Mrs. Elizabeth Montgomery, 
widow, £500 to be paid out of his effects at large, over and 
above what she is entitled to by his will. Also his gold 
watch to the Right Hon. Lord Mountflorence ; three of his 
best snuff boxes to his three nephews, as Mrs. Armar shall 
think fit to distribute them ; and the demise in his will with 

* A Rev. Thomas M'Donnell was Rector of Derryvullen, from 1744-63. 



241 

regard to his books* in favour of the Rev. Mr. Gorley he 
revokes. " These few additions to my will, and alterations 
as thought necessary by me, I expect and am persuaded my 
executrix and every person principally concerned in my 
said will, will with me judge reasonable and proper, and 
in this confidence," he subscribes this codicil to his will 
in presence of Elizabeth Jones, Sam VickerstafT, and J. 
O'DonneU. 

On the 16th June, 1773, Mr. Armar made a second codicil 
further to remove doubts as to the executorship of his will, 
and as to the disposal of such personal property as by his 
will he had bequeathed to his wife in case she should die 
before him, or though surviving should die without disposing 
thereof by will or otherwise. If he survives his wife, he 
then appoints Armar Lowry Cony to be his executor, and 
bequeaths to him all such personal property as by his will 
he has bequeathed to her. He also bequeaths to him so 
much of the personal property as she, though surviving him, 
shall not at or before her death dispose of by will or other- 
wise. But if his wife should survive him, and be able to 
make such disposition, he further addresses and bequests 
of her in manner following. That not having considered 
as fully and as amply as might have been expected, his 
nephew, Captain Alexander Gordon, and his wife or children, 
in his will, for reasons too well known to them and to their 
friends, he now notwithstanding upon further consideration, 
and for a particular reason hereafter assigned, thinks proper 
to recommend them to the mention of his original sole 
executrix and residuary legatee, his wife, Mrs. Mary Armar, 
requesting her to accept of his acknowledgments of the 
honour she did him, in accepting of him for a husband, and 
for her frank and unsuspecting reliance upon him to make 
such a settlement afterwards upon her, as the honour she 
conferred upon him, independent of her own merit deserved. 
That in return for such unmerited and unbounded confi- 
dence, he has considered her and her peculiar relations in 
his will, in the amplest manner he could, by conferring on 
her and them, all or most of his acquisitions ; that he makes 
no doubt from the long-known affection and regard which 
has subsisted between them, that her generosity and grate- 
ful sense of this, his most ardent expressions towards her, 

* Amongst the books at Castlecoole is a certain one, in which is written Mr. 
Armar's father's name, " Wm. Armar," and the motto " Supperanda omnis for- 
tuna est." The book consists of funeral orations and other pieces ; one by Francis 
Nethersole, Fellow of Trinity College, and Orator of the University of Cambridge, 
is a funeral oration on Henry Prince of Wales. The collection includes a life of 
Archbishop Ussher. The title page is missing. 

R 



242 

and the high respect thereby intentionally paid her, will 
engage her to consider proportionally his relations, particu- 
larly his said nephew Alexander Gordon, his wife who is 
also his niece, and their children, in such manner as the 
residuum which she will find herself possessed of will enable 
her, so as to show her suitable regard for his memory ; 
and in this dependence and in confidence of her readiness 
to comply with this request, which is meant entirely in 
compliment to her, he has purposely omitted this, his 
further intention on behalf of the said Alexander Gordon 
and his family, in his will and former codicil; and therefore, 
he entreats that as soon as it is necessary, and to prevent 
accidents, such disposition by will or otherwise may be by 
her made, as will best answer the intent and purpose of 
this request and addrens, and the effectual disposal of such 
residuum as she may become entitled to and possessed of. 
But if his wife should be prevented by her extreme weakness, 
or other accident to make (from making) such provision by 
will or otherwise, in that case and to obviate such contin- 
gency, he hereby in the second codicil to his will, leaves and 
bequeaths to Alexander Gordon, his wife and children, over 
and above what he may become entitled to in his will, 
Two thousand five hundred pounds, out of the residuum 
of his personal estate and property ; and the executor named 
in this second codicil upon failure of his wife, is to pay the 
same with legal interest to the sole use and behoof of 
Alexander Gordon, his wife and children as soon as conve- 
nient, that is within one year at furthest, after his decease. 
In all other respects he confirms his will and the first 
codicil with the explanations and additions thereto. Signed 
in presence of Michael Law, John M'Mullan, and John 
M'Donnell. This will was proved by Mrs. Armar the 21st 
October, 1773. 

Assuming nothing to have been omitted from the probate, 
Mr. Armar forgot in the original will, expressly to name his 
wife sole executrix and residuary legatee, although he 
alludes to her as such executrix, and calls her so in the 
second codicil. The Corry estate lands follow the nomen- 
clature of Leslie Cony's will, which was evidently made in 
a hurry just before his death. The name of Killynan gives 
place to Bonnybrooke — 

Mr. Armar must have died very shortly after making the 
second codicil, and was buried in the vault under Derry- 
vullen church. He was born in 1700, so he must have been 
in his seventy-third or seventy-fourth year. I have dwelt 
upon him at considerable length as he has always seemed 



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to me to have been a model country gentleman. Judging 
from a very bitter verse, which probably formed, part of an 
old electioneering rhyme, and which I need not repeat, 
his great niece and my great aunt, Louisa Lady Sandwich, 
formed the opinion, expressed in a letter which is in my 
possession, that he must have been a very " haughty " man. 
But she never knew him personally, and I confess that 
judging from the records of his life which extend over 
nearly half a century, that I agree with what seems to 
have been the sentiment of his contemporaries, that he was a 
most amiable and charitable person. 



CHAPTER XVI. 

MARY ARMAR, 1773-1774. 

Her sale of the Church land lease to Armar Lowry-Corry — Her will — 
Death of Miss Mary Lowry-Corry — Mrs. Armar's death. 

Mrs. Armar appears, from an expression in the second 
codicil to her husband's will, to have been then in very bad 
health, (although she could only have been about sixty-one 
years of age) ; bad health which is alluded to, in 1752, in 
the poem of Phillander and Aspasia. * She, however, 
survived her husband for upwards of a year. 

Church Land property in those days being merely lease- 
hold, was considered to be personal and not real property, 
and she took her husband's interest, which was very con- 
siderable, in his Bishop's lease estate as residuary legatee. 

A deed dated the 13th December, 1773, between Mary 
Armar of Castlecoole, widow, and Armar Lowry Cony of 
Aghenis, recites that by an indenture dated 1 3th November 
last, John Lord Bishop of Clogher had demised, set, and to 
farm let unto Mary Armar, the whole territory Termon 
Eirinagh,t Corbe or Church Lands of Aghavey, containing 
8 small tates, except 40 acres part of the tate of Aghavey, 
set apart for a glebe for, and now in the possession of the 
Rector of Aghavey ; the whole territory, &c, of Inniskeen, 
containing 25 tates of land, except the Island of Inniskeen 
containing 3 tates thereof, Rossurir otherwise Rossory 
containing 16 tates, Donaghmoyglin containing 1 small 
tate, and Derryvielland otherwise Derryvolland containing 
33^ tates, except 4 tafces of land formerly in possession of 
Sir Henry Power, Lord Viscount Valentia or his assigns ; 
Magheryculmoney containing 16 tates, except 2 acres of 
land near the parish church of Magheryculmoney, com- 

* Page 211. t An explanation of these terms will be found in A pp. M. 

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monly called the Vicar's acres, and also excepting the tate 
towns and lands of Ardesh (Ardess), comprised in a former 
lease to Margetson Armar, which lands and every part 
thereof* are excepted out of this demise. [The late Rev. 
Lord Adam Loftus was for some years rector, of this parish.] 

As to the whole territory of Sansonnagh, containing 1 
small tate of land, Cloghana containing 2 tates of land, 
Baha, otherwise Baggia, otherwise Boho, containing I7i 
tates, Clontive containing 1 tate of land, Templenenrin 
otherwise Templehin containing 2 small tates, and the 
mill of Derry veiland, j and which are in the county of 
Fermanagh and diocese of Clogher, and were lately in 
possession of Margetson Armar and his undertenants, and 
are now in possession of the said Mary Armar and her 
under tenants, to hold the same for twenty- one years at the 
rent of £380. j This indenture witnesseth that for good 
and valuable considerations and particularly in consideration 
of the re-demise of Killynure, Gortgonnell, Derrymakeen, 
Bally lucas DrumcriD, Derry v ore, Drumcoo, the two Rings, 
the two Dromards, and Derrybegs, being part and parcel of 
the Termon land of Derryvolland, at a pepper corn yearly 
rent, and discharged from fines and expences of renewal by 
Armar Lowry Corry, to be made for so many years of the 
said term, and of future terms thereof to him, &c, to be 
granted, as she may live, and also of a like demise of the 
said tate of Killynure in like manner at a pepper corn 
yearly rent, and in like manner discharged of fines expences 
and renewals, to his sister Mary Lowry Corry (in like 
manner), as the said Mary shall survive the said Mary 
Armar, and also in consideration of the sum of £31,313 4s. 2d. 
to her the said Mary Armar in hand paid by the said Armar 
Lowry Corry, she grants, &c, &c, unto the said Armar, the 
said respective lands for the remainder of the term of years. 
This is signed Mary Armar by virtue of an annexed letter 
of attorney, by Andrew Crawford, esq., of Dublin, and by 
the said Armar Lowry Corry. 

By a deed dated the following day, Armar Lowry Corry 
carries out the foregoing arrangement with his aunt and 
sister, granting to Mrs. Armar a lease as agreed on, from 
the 13th of the last November, and granting the latter a 
lease of so much of Killinure, from after her aunt's death, 
as was considered part of the demesne of Castlecoole (this 
would exclude the townparks.) He also covenanted to 
obtain a renewal from the Bishop of Clogher for 21 years, of 

* The Glebe is now called Ardess Glebe. See App. U. 

f I think this must be Cappy Mill. 

I The agent's fees would bring this up to £399. 



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the demised lands together with the other lands, or as many 
of them as the Bishop could be prevailed on to grant a 
further lease of. On obtaining which he would grant a 
toties quoties lease of the Derryveiland lands to Mrs. 
Armar. The above arrangement with Mary, was no doubt 
to carry out her uncle's wish that she should enjoy the " old 
demense, " by which I understand the south side of Kille- 
nure Hill, part of Lough Coole, the Flax-field up to the 
old fence, the Long Hill, Kedagh, that part of Rossyvullen 
which was then in the demense, and Coney burrow and 
the Rookery Hills, as well as the Limekiln Bog. I cannot 
determine whether Agharainy was included in the old 
demense or not. 

On the 15th April, 1774, Mrs. Armar made her will ; 
which constitutes a curious inventory of her most cherished 
possessions. She revokes all other wills, and agreeably to 
what she conceived to be her late husband's intentions, she 
bequeaths to Captain Alex. Gordon the sum of ^2,500, over 
and above the £1,000 bequeathed to him by her husband. 
She also leaves him a further additional sum of £1,500, and 
to his wife Catherine the sum of £1,000. To their eldest 
daughter Mary Elizabeth, £500 ; to be paid to her on her 
day of marriage, provided she marries with the consent of 
her parents, or the survivor of them if then living. If not, 
or she dies before marriage, it is to go to her next sister on 
like condition ; and so on to the third and fourth daughter 
if the elder sisters die before marriage, or marry without 
consent. She bequeaths to her sister-in-law Mrs. Elizabeth 
Montgomery £500; to Hugh Montgomery her husband's 
nephew £1,500; To Mrs. Martha Popkin of Swansea in 
South Wales £1,000 ; To Mary Popkin her daughter £1,000 
to be paid her on the day of her marriage, on a similar con- 
dition to Miss Gordon's, which if not complied with, she 
leaves the amount to the mother. To Armar Lowry Corry 
£500. To her sister Sarah £500. — to her sister Elizabeth 
Leslie £100. To Lady Mountflorence £100, to Miss Corry 
(Mary) £100. To the Hon. Miss Sarah Cole* eldest 
daughter of Lady Mountflorence £200. To the Revd. 
Dr. Thomas McDonnell £50. To Miss Elizabeth Auchin- 
lech £100. To Armar Auchinlech <£50, to Ancketell 
Auchmlech £50. To Mrs. Sarah Scott £40. To Mrs. 
Elizabeth Jones £50. To Miss Elizabeth Jones her daughter 
£50. To Miss Mary Moutray £100. To the Rev. Alexander 
Leslie £50. To Mary AnnMagennis £40. To her executors 
hereafter named, £600 in trust, that they and the survivor of 

* Afterwards Lady Sarah Wynne, of Hazelwood, Co. Sligo. 



them, and the executors and administrators of such sur- 
vivor, do from time to time, place and lay out the £600 
upon good and sufficient security ; and the annual interest 
from time to time dispose of among such poor people as well 
male as female, not exceeding twelve in number, residing 
within three miles of the mansion house of Castlecoole ; 
and in such proportions amongst them as her executors 
should think proper. And after the death of the survivor, 
as the person or persons in possession of the Castlecoole 
estate should from time to time think proper — provided 
such persons are of her own blood and family. But in 
case the estate shall at any time go out of her family, then 
the interest is to be distributed as the Hector of Derryvulien 
for the time being shall think proper. She leaves £100, 
over and above the £150 she has already subscribed, towards 
the building of a new church at Derryvulien, provided the 
building of the same be begun within a year from the time of 
her death, and also that the present site of the old church 
be not altered or changed, otherwise the legacy to be void. 
She gives £100 to her faithful servant Sarah Martin, as also 
all her stoan ware dishes, her blue and white china plates, 
one of the beds now in Miss Corry's room, with the bedstead, 
curtains, and blankets, two pair of the short sheets last 
made up, her watch and all her wearing apparel and lace, 
except such particulars thereof as are herein otherwise dis- 
posed of. To her faithful servant Christopher Armstrong 
£20 ; to her servant Hannah Dudgeon £20 ; to her servant 
Eliz. Johnston £10. To her servant William Armstrong 
£5. To James Boyle £5. To her sister Sarah Corry during 
her life, the use of all her household furniture and plate, and 
and of all her farming, gardening and other utensils, in and 
about the house and offices of Castlecoole except as otherwise 
hereby disposed of ; and her express will is, that no part of 
the plate is to be in any way changed or altered by her sister ; 
and from and after her sister's death, she bequeaths all 
these things to Miss Corry. She also bequeaths to Miss 
Corry all her useful and ornamental china, house linen, 
quilts, dressing boxes, filligree work (except as otherwise 
disposed of), and also her coach, coach horses, two of her 
best saddle horses, and six good dairy cows. She leaves to 
Mrs. Eliz Jones, before mentioned, her locket ring contain- 
ing her late husband's and her own hair. To Mrs. Cathe- 
rine Gordon, her diamond hoop ring. To Lady Mount- 
florence her large one-stone diamond ring. To Hugh Mont- 
gomery her silver epergne and one pair of embossed silver 
candlesticks, together with the rich stitched quilt and 



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pillows. To Lady Margaret Corry her amber snuff-box, 
mounted in gold, the china jars and beaker that now stand 
in the drawingroom, together with the works of Pope, 
Shakespeare, Swift, and Dunkin, and Baskerville's Milton. 
To her sister Mrs. Sarah Corry, her Baskerville's prayer 
book. To her sister Mrs. Leslie, Pomet's History of Drugs, 
and to Lord Mountflorence the park chaise. 

She directs all the debts that she may owe at the time of 
her death to be forthwith discharged, and her stock of 
cattle, except what are hereinbefore disposed of, to be dis- 
posed of to the best advantage by her executors, in order to 
answer the purposes of her will ; and after payment of her 
debts, legacies, and funeral expenses, she leaves the residue 
of her real and personal estate, two thirds to Alexander 
Gordon, and one-third to Hugh Montgomery; and she 
appoints Armar Lowry Corry and Hugh Montgomery her 
executors, This will she signed in presence of Thomas 
Smyth, Richard Godley, and James Walsh. 

On the 18th October, 1774, Mrs. Armar added a codicil 
to her will, She was still of sound and disposing mind 
and memory, though weak of body. She says that she 
did by her will bequeath to her niece Mary Lowry Corry, 
whom it had pleased God in his wise providence to remove 
out of this world before her, the sum of £100, and also 
other things, from after the death of her sister Sarah, She 
revokes the will so far as it concerns Mary, and bequeaths 
what she had given to Mary in manner following: — To Armar 
Lowry Corry, after his mother's death, the fixtures, furni- 
ture, and silver breadbasket. To Lady Margaret Corry, 
after Mrs, Corry 's decease (besides the jars mentioned in 
her will), the two figures and two branches in the drawing- 
room, a pair of china dogs, with a pair of coloured images, 
and from after her own decease she leaves her her best 
service of china, consisting of thirteen dishes, forty-six 
plates, twelve soup plates, with two tureens, covers, and 
dishes, and her choice of two suits of damask, and one suit 
of small Dutch diaper. To Lady Mountflorence, after the 
death of Mrs. Corry, a pair of china flower baskets, a china 
bottle and basin, a pair of white gold jars, one dozen of 
Chelsea plates, a pair of Chelsea dishes, a bowl and dish, 
four leaves and two passion flowers and their leaves ; and 
after her own decease, three of her finest diaper cloths and 
covers, and one dozen of napkins. To her niece, Mrs. 
Catherine Gordon, from and after her decease, two suits 
damask linen, two of fine diaper, and also the octagon 
service of china, consisting of nine dishes, forty-five plates, 



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two flat long dishes, two Chelsea sauce boats and plates, and 
a set of cut water glasses and their plates. And from the 
decease of her sister Sarah, all the china in the dressing- 
room, and tea and coffee china, except what is mentioned 
above, or what she may hereafter dispose of. To Hugh 
Montgomery, from and after her death, one suit of fine 
diaper, one of damask linen, six long red, blue, and china 
dishes, one round ditto, one large enamelled tureen and 
cover, and six china soup plates. To be equally divided 
between Hugh Montgomery and Mrs. Gordon, she leaves, 
from and after her decease, twenty-three damask cloathes 
and covers, six new diaper cloathes and covers, eighteen old 
Dutch napkins, ten breakfast cloathes, forty-eight fine 
towels, forty-eight coarse towels, thirty-two pair of long 
sheets, and seventeen pair of short ones. To Hugh Mont- 
gomery and Captain Gordon, from after Mrs. Corry's decease, 
the remainder of her plate, exclusive of what she has left 
to Hugh Montgomery in her will, to be divided between 
them as they shall agree, except four table spoons and one 
small sauce pan, which she leaves to her faithful servant 
Sarah Martin. To her sister, Mrs. Leslie, Blackwell's Her- 
bal, two vols., folio. To her niece, Mrs. Martha Popkin, 
her oval paper snuff-box ; and to Miss Maiy Popkin, two 
Philicray flowers and an inkstand. To Mrs. Catherine Craw- 
ford, of Sackville-street, Dublin, her sedan chair. To Sarah 
Martin, from and after her decease, six new table cloathes, 
thirty-one new towels, and twelve ivory-handled knives 
and forks ; and to Hannah Dudgeon, six old table cloathes 
and two pair of servants' sheets. To her servant, William 
Armstrong, from and after her decease (over and above 
what is bequeathed to him in her will), £10. To Patrick 
Martin, cook, and Richard Hennessy and Patrick Creighan, 
postillions, £5 13s. 9c?. each. All the remainder of her books 
are to be divided between the Hon. Miss Sarah Cole, Miss 
Elizabeth Cole,* and Miss Mary Elizabeth Gordon. Ail her 
coach and other carriages, and the horses and cows left to 
Mary Lowry Cony in her will, with the grain and hay, 
&c, shall be sold by her executors in a convenient time 
after her death, and the money arising therefrom shal], 
with the £] 00 left to Mary Corry, be added to the residue 
of her fortune, which she believes to be very considerable 
but cannot now ascertain ; two-thirds of which is to go to 
Alexander Gordon, and one-third to Hugh Montgomery 
All the moveables in and about this house,! not mentioned, 
to go to Miss Corry. She requests her executors that they 

* Afterwards Lady Elizabeth Magenta. f Castlecoole. 



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will deal tenderly by Mr. George Kirk with respect to the 
debt due by him ; and lastly she nominates Armar Lowry 
Corry and Hugh Montgomery to be executors of her will 
and codicil. Signed in presence of Wm. Stewart, and Paul 
Dane. Probate was granted Jan. 21, 1775, to Hugh Mont- 
gomery, saving the right of Armar Lowry Corry, the other 
executor. 

Of the legatees named in Mrs. Armar's will, the Mont- 
gomerys, Gordons, and, I presume, the Popkins, were Mr. 
Armar's relations — then followed her own, including, I 
imagine, Mrs. Scott and Mrs. and Miss Jones, who I think 
it likely were descendants of her grandfather, James 
Corry, through his daughter, Mrs. Auchinlech. Mary 
Anne Magennis I suppose to have been the wife of her 
husband's servant, Richard Magennis. 

I bave not so far been able to trace the £600 bequeathed 
to the poor. For many years pensions have been paid to 
twelve poor persons out of the estate ; of late years at the 
rate of £5 apiece. But my great grandfather paid only £3 
Irish apiece : which looks as if the money was lent to him 
by way of an investment, at the rate of six per cent., by 
the acting executor. 

With regard to the bequest for rebuilding the church, to 
the best of my belief it was not rebuilt at that time, nor, 
indeed, until sixty-nine years later, and then* on another site. 

By the date of the grant of probate, Mrs. Armar cannot 
have long survived after making the codicil to her will. I 
suppose her to have died towards the end of 1774. She was 
buried at Derryvullen. An old woman lately deceased, who 
had been the sextan ess, told me that after the funeral her 
servant threw the key of the vault into the brook at Tan- 
house water, I suppose from a feeling that the property 
wculd now pass to the Lowry family, who would be buried 
at Caledon. 

There is a picture of* Mrs. Armar, at Castlecoole, when a 
young woman. She is attired in a blue dress. She had, 
judging by the picture, a good figure and small hands, but 
a plain face. 

The woman before alluded to also told me that a deformed 
child of hers had been buried in the vault. This, however, 
I believe was a mistake. The only child, whether deformed 
or otherwise, whom there is a trace of as having been in the 
vault, was that of her sister, Mrs. Leslie Corry, who died 
11th March, 1743. 

* The present church of Derryvullen is built on the townland of Mulrod. It 
was begun in 1852 and consecrated by the late Primate, Lord John Beresford, in 
1854. The foundation stone was laid by myself in the former year. 



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CHAPTER XVII. 

SAKAH LOWKY cokry, 1759 and 1774-1779 

Her succession to the estates. — Her Dublin and Longford property 

Her will and death. 

Sarah Corry succeeded to her father's estate at Castlecoole, 
but under her brother-in-law's will, on her sister Mary's death 
in 1774. She must at this time have been about sixty-five 
years of age, and was originally the second of the sisters, 
Mary Armar being the third. But she appears to have 
succeeded to the Loughside estate in the barony of Maghera- 
stephana, and also to the Longford estate, on the death of 
her elder sister, Martha Leslie Corry in 1759 ; although for 
some reason she and her husband, Galbraith Lowry, do not 
appear to have carried out the condition of her father's will, 
by taking and using the name of Corry, until after the 
death of her brother-in-law, Edmond Leslie Corry, M.P., in 
1764 or 1765. As has been before-mentioned, she had seven 
children, four of whom died young, and the youngest, 
Mary, unmarried, at the age of about twenty-six. Conse- 
quently all her numerous descendants spring from her 
youngest son, Armar, and her daughter Anne, alluded to 
in Mrs. Armar's will as Lady Mountflorence, but better 
known as the first Countess of Enniskillen. From this 
lady are descended, the Wynne family of Hazelwood, county 
Sligo (from Lady Sarah) ; the Magenis family of Finvoy, 
county Antrim (from Lady Elizabeth), the late head of 
which was married to my own sister, now Lady Louisa 
Magenis;* the Balfour family of Townley Hall, county 
Louth (from Lady Florence) ; and Earl Cowper, Baron Lucas 
(from Lady Henrietta, Countess de Grey). Besides which, 
there are the descendants of her two elder sons, the second 
earl, and General Sir Galbraith Lowry Cole. 

Mention has before been made of some property in 
Queen-street, Oxmantown, Dublin, known as Lots 94 and 
95, which John Corry acquired at the very end of the pre- 
ceding century in trust for his father James Corry. LTpon 
this was a house (on the west side of Queen-street) which 
James Corry let on the 25th March, 1703, upon a twenty- 
one year's lease, to the Hon. William Villiers, together with 

* Through Lady Elizabeth, the late Mrs. Froude was descended from Colonel 
James Corry. Mr. J. A. Froude 's criticism, in his book, " The English in Ireland," 
upon the grant of Inseloghgease to Colonel Corry, was the original cause of my 
going so fully into that matter. 



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a yard, garden, stable, coach-house, and brewhouse, at a 
rent of £60 a year, over and above any kind of chimney 
and hearth money (excepting the ground rent payable to the 
Blue Coat Hospital). Mr. Villiers was to keep the house in 
repair. This property which is near the quays, between the 
Four Courts and the Phoenix Park, does not seem to have 
turned out to be an improving one ; for on the 6th May, 
1766, I find Galbraith * and Sarah Lowry Corry, who had 
now become possessed of it, giving a lease of it, as known 
by the name of the Black Lyon, for thirty-one years, at a 
rent of £24 a year to John Lynch, inn-holder, the tenant 
to keep it in repair. This lease was witnessed by Townley 
Thompson and William Cole. 

As has been stated in an earlier chapter, the rental of 
the Longford estate, when Leslie Corry died in 1741, was 
£409 a year. At November, 1768, it seems to have risen 
to £661 7s. 6d, if I understand Mr. John M' Vitty, the agent's 
accounts aright. Mr. Gledstanes, probably Mr. Lowry Corry 's 
friend in Tyrone,t seems to have lately given up a townland 
called Dring. At May, 1777, it had risen to £917, a yearly 
rent nearly equal to the original purchase money some eighty 
years before. In the account attached to this rental is this 
entry, under date July 14th, 1778. " By expense in keeping 
possession of the stolen lands of Gilsagh per account £13 
10s. lljd" This included a good deal of whiskey, the cost 
of surveying the hidden part, and nine and ninepence for 
rebuilding a house. There is an agreement for a lease, 
signed 15th March, 1770, by A. L. Corry on his mother's 
behalf, of part of Garteenoran (except about twenty acres 
already set to Dominick Quin), to William Moorecraft for 
three lives at the rent of sixteen shillings and sixpence per 
acre. That in those days was a good rent On the 10th 
October, 1778, Mr. M' Vitty, the agent, writes as follows : — 

" Cartrons, October 10th, 1778. 

" Madam, — I had the favor of your letter last Thursday, and 
am very glad to hear that you are getting the better of your 
complaints. If I find myself in a condition fitt to travel I will 
surely waite upon you at the time you mention, but if not I 
will send George Beatty, and will be glad to know if you will 
have any money taken to you at the time. There was 
£339 Ids. 7d., paid to Latouche, since May last, £169 13s. 7<£, 
the 16th of May, and £170 the 14th of July. And George 
Beatty sent bills lately for £300 payable about the end of this 

* He is here described as of " The Mall," Dublin. I cannot find the name now 
in Thorn's Street Directory. 
f Vide p. 40, 



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month, but Latouche will not take bills as other banks do. 1 am 
sorry to acquaint you that a great many of your tenants are in a 
bad condition. The fall of linen and yarn has quite broke the 
poorer sort, but I hope times may mend. 

" I am, Madam, 

" Your obedient humble servant, 

"JohnM'Yitty." 

This shows how the small farmers depended on the linen 
trade for their support. In fact the farms probably only 
supplied them with food. This was I believe also the case 
in Tyrone and Fermanagh. 

The only transaction on her Fermanagh estate by Mrs. 
Cony which I have before me, is the lease of a garden, 
house, and cow's grass in Curragh, in the parish of Augher- 
lurcher, to Robert Armstrong, of Hollybrook, for the life of 
Captain Jerome Noble, of Glasdrummon, at a yearly rent 
of £2 10s. This property she had herself purchased from 
Armstrong. 

I have an account book extending over several years, 
ending with her life, between Mrs. Corry and her son. The 
principal facts recorded in this are, that she received a third 
share of Mary L. Corry 's £4,000, who I presume therefore 
died intestate ; and that her jointure and the annuity left 
to her by her husband, were not, at any rate after she in- 
herited Castlecoole, paid to her; but that her son gave 
her a series of bonds for them, bearing interest at five per 
cent. She probably divided her time after her sister's 
death, mainly between Castlecoole and Sackville-street. 

On the 16th June, 1779, Mrs. Corry made her will. She 
says that she is in her usual state of health, and of sound and 
disposing mind, memory, and understanding. She desires 
her body to be laid along with her husband's, in the vault 
made by her in Caledon, and that it be buried in a private 
and decent manner. She leaves the following legacies : — 
£50 to the Infirmary of Tyrone ; £30 to the poor of the 
parish of Caledon or Aghaloo ; £10 to the poor of the 
parish of Dromore ; £50 to the poor of the parish of Derry- 
vullan; and £10 to the poor of the parish of Enniskillen ; 
to her grandson Galbraith Lowry Corry Cole, £1,000 ; to 
her granddaughter Elizabeth Anne Cole, £200 ; to Isabella 
Calhoun, her goddaughter, and daughter of Alexander 
Colhoun by Anne his wife, £100 ; the interest to be paid 
to the mother without control of her husband, until Isabella 
arrives at eighteen or marriage, when the principal sum is 
to be paid to her. To Mr. Paul Dane, the sum of £34 tfc. 3d., 




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the sum contained in Samuel and James * Mitchell's bond, 
for which she has said Samuel's lease of a field in Clanca, 
and a field in Tynany, under Charles P. Leslie, esq., as a 
further security, in trust and for the use of Sarah Mitchell, 
daughter of said Samuel and Jane ; and she recommends it 
to Mr. Dane to take care of the above securities, and to 
raise and give the money to Sarah when he shall think it 
most to her advantage ; to whom also she leaves £20 to be 
paid to Mr Paul Dane, and put out by him at interest in 
w, the name and for the use of the said Sarah. She bequeaths 
y*\s to Catherine Law, £10; to Michael M'Mollen, son of James 
jJlA^ M'Mollen, £20 ; to Henry Cox, £i0;f to her gamekeeper, 
£5 5s. ; to Christian Bead an annuity of £4 for life ; to her 
coachman, and to each of her postillions, John Murray and 
John Neile, if they shall be in her service at her death, a 
year's wages to each; £3 to each of the following persons : — 
Lat Murphy, Thomas Leviston, Tarderagh M'Mollen, Bryan 
M'Mullan, Miles M'Mullan, Hugh M'Mullan, Edward 
Donaghy, and Owen Coyle; to her daughter Lady Ennis- 
killen, £50 ; to Lord Viscount Enniskillen, and to her 
sister Mrs. Leslie, £50 each ; to Mrs. Mary Nicholson, 
and her son James Corry Nicholson, £50 each ; to her 
godson the Rev. William Campbell, £2 1 to purchase a gold 
watch ; and to the Rev. Dr. Thomas Campbell, Hume's 
History of England, and Dr. Leland's History of Ireland ; 
to her grandson Somerset Lowry Corry, her epergne, and 
the two sets of glasses, her silver urnj; for sugar, and pepper 
box, and her old silver tankard that belonged to her great 
grandfather, as also two suits of damask linen with her 
arms. She bequeaths to Sarah, daughter of Hugh Staunton, 
£10 ; to her servant Christopher Armstrong, £15 ; and to 
Hannah his wife, £25, over and above all wages due to 
them, together with the entire bed and bedding of their 
own room, and four chairs and table, also four table cloathes, 
known by the name of Mr. King's table cloathes, and two 
pair of servant's sheets ; to Barth. Roan, £5 5s. ; and to 
Jane his wife, £10; to Rose M'Mullan, £10; to Owen 
M'Glone, £5 5s. And whereas that she formerly made a 
promise to George Forsyth, of Enniskillen, that in case he 
did not get a renewal of the lands, as his father John 
Forsyth holds under her in the county of Fermanagh, upon 
the death of his father, that he should be paid by her a 
sum of £100, she hereby commends it to her son Armar 

* Query Jane. f Name omitted. 

X A. word would appear to have been omitted here. Her urn, which is in my 
possession, is a hot water urn. I have also the epergne and tankard. 



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Lowry Corry, that in case at the expiration of the lease he 
should not think fit to let the lands to George Forsyth, he 
should pay him £100. And in case he should renew the 
lease to him, it is her desire that his mother Mary Forsyth 
should either hold and enjoy a fourth of the lands during 
her life, at the same rent he renewed for, or that he should 
pay her £30 at her own discretion ; which several legacies 
she directs to be paid by her executors hereafter named. 

She leaves and bequeaths to her son Armar Lowry Cony 
her house in Sackville-street, with all the offices, furniture, 
and appurtenances thereunto belonging, together with all 
her carriages and horses, chargeable nevertheless with 
payment of the said annuity of i?4, and with the payment 
also of £1,500 as hereinafter mentioned, with interest at 
£5 per cent. To her granddaughter Sarah Elizabeth* 
Cole, eldest daughter of Lord Enniskillen, the said £1,500, 
together with £8,500, making in all £10,000, to be paid to 
her by her executor at eighteen or marriage, which ever first 
may happen, provided she marries with the consent of her 
father and mother, and of her own executor, whom she desires 
shall be a consenting party, signified by an instrument in 
writing under his or their hands and seals, and attested by 
two or more credible witnesses. The executor is to allow 
£300 a year for her maintenance and education until she 
arrives at eighteen, or is married with the consent aforesaid ; 
and from thence the entire interest of such sum of money as 
she shall be entitled to under the will. But if she marries 
without consent, or dies under twenty-one years of age, 
then her will is that Armar Lowry Corry is to be released 
from the payment of the £1,500, and that £4,000, part of the 
£8,500 may go to her grandson Galbraith Lowry Corry 
Cole, to be paid to him at twenty-one or marriage ; and that 
£2,000, part of the £8,500, be paid to Lady Enniskillen with- 
out being subject to the debts or control of her husband. 
The remaining £2,500 she bequeaths to her own son, and if 
Galbraith S. L. Cole dies under twenty-one unmarried and 
without issue, then the £4,000 (if he should have become 
entitled to it) is also to go to her son Armar. She requests 
that if her son lives to see her granddaughter Sarah Cole 
married, he will secure in her marriage settlement £500, 
to be paid to her immediately after her husband's death in 
case she should survive him. It is also her will, that Sarah 
Cole should pay to Jane Crawley an annuity of £4 a year 
during the life of the said Jane Crawley. She leaves to 
her relation, Mrs. Susanna Auchinlech, the sum of £50. 

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To Mrs. Auchinlech's son, the Rev. Alexander Auchinlecb, 
£50. To Sarah Cox, daughter of her servant Henry Cox, 
the sum of £10, which sum she directs to be paid to her 
granddaughter, Sarah Elizabeth Cole, for her use. To 
Christian Read, her servant, the green Kildermaster curtains, 
and bedstead, and feather bed which are in her house in 
Dublin, two pairs of blankets, two pairs of servant's sheets, 
a quilt, a small deal table, and her (Read's) own candle- 
stick, and four rush chairs. To her son, Armar Lowry 
Corry, and to his heirs for ever, the lands of Carragh and 
Tally, situate in the county Fermanagh, which she lately 
purchased from Mr. Robert Armstrong, subject nevertheless 
to the payment of her legacies, and charged with the 
sum of £500, which she orders to be paid to her grand- 
daughter, Sarah Elizabeth Cole, £400 of which is her 
own, viz. : — £100 bequeathed to her by her grandfather, 
Galbraith Lowry Corry, esq., deceased, £200 bequeathed 
to her by her grand aunt, Mrs. Armar, and the other £100 
was a legacy bequeathed to herself by Mrs. Armar, and 
which she made a present of to the said Sarah Elizabeth 
Cole; and the additional £100 is to enable her to pay an 
annuity of £6 a year to Jane Mitchell, of Glaslough, wife 
to Samuel Mitchell, during her life, without being subject 
to the control and debts of her husband, for which her own 
discharge must be sufficient and which must be paid by Miss 
Cole. She bequeaths to Armar Lowry Corry, the pictures 
of her grandfather and father in the house in Sackville-street, 
or the copies taken therefrom, and now at Castlecoole, which 
ever he chooses ; those which he rejects she leaves to her 
grandson, the Hon. John Cole. She appoints her son Armar 
her sole executor and residuary legatee. Signed on the 10th 
June, 1779, Sarah Lowry Corry, in presence of Hugh Mont- 
gomery, Michael Byrne, and Charles King. On the 16th 
June, 1779, she adds that on page the first, there are two 
lines and a third erased by her order, as she finds on settling 
accounts with her son, that there is £10,000 due to her by 
bonds. Therefore, she leaves him her house in Sackville- 
street, free of all charges. Signed in presence of Alexander 
Leslie, and Bartholomew Noone. 

Probate was granted to Armar Lowry Corry, the sole 
executor, on the 29th Nov., 1779. Mrs. Corry must con- 
sequently have died between June and November in that 
year. With her the Corry family proper came to an end 
at Castlecoole, having been settled there for about 133 years. 
Her sister Elizabeth outlived her, but I believe her son, 
Archibald Hamilton, died childless. The only descendants 



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of John Corry, the first owner, therefore that I know of, 
are those of Mrs. Lowry Corry and of her aunts Mrs. Moutray 
and Mrs Auchinlech. The Manors of Coole and Finagh were 
henceforth united under the proprietorship of Armar Lowry 
Corry and his descendants, and have so continued, with an 
exception in Tyrone (Corballytackin and Killadroy,) to be 
hereafter alluded to. Although nearly all the rest of the 
properties of the two families of Lo wry and Corry have passed 
into other hands, in Tyrone three good townlands, Beagh, 
Legacorry, and Letfern, and the head rent of Moylagb, out- 
side the Manor, still remain. In Fermanagh, part of the 
Church land estate in and near the demense, is now also in 
my possession. 

There is a three-quarter length picture of Mrs. Lowry 
Corry at Castlecoole. She is dressed in white, and appears 
to have been slight, rather above the middle height, and 
better looking than either her sister Martha or Mary. 
There is also a much better picture of Elizabeth Leslie, 
who seems to have been rather pretty. As there are still 
three pictures at Castlecoole of their father John Corry, I 
suppose that her grandson John Cole did not claim his 
legacy of his great grandfather's picture. 

I have now brought down the history of the two manors 
and their OAvners, to a point from whence matters relating 
to them affect the private affairs of individuals who lived, 
some of them far, into the present century. It is the period 
moreover from about which the statement of my own title 
to the property made with a view to my marriage settle- 
ments, started. In the brief history I have yet to give of 
the united manors, it will be more convenient that I should 
abstain from entering into those minute details which I 
have hitherto given, and confine myself to the mere outlines 
of events, particularly those of a private character. 



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PART III. 
THE MANORS UNITED. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

ARMAR LOWRY CORRY (EARL BELMORE), CONTINUED.* 

1779-1802. 

His second marriage — He is created a Baron of Ireland — Dealings with 
the property — Enlargement of Castlecoole demesne — Created a Vis- 
count — The present house built — His third marriage — His son comes 
of age, and is elected M.P. for Tyrone — Lord Belmore created an 
Earl — Opposes the Union in Parliament — Extracts from the " Lords' 
Journals " — Lord Belmore's sudden death at Bath. 

Armar Lowry Corry succeeded his mother at Castlecoole 
towards the end of 1779, having then been a widower 
with an only son for about three years and a half. Early 
in 1780 a marriage was arranged between him and Lady 
Henrietta Hobart, eldest daughter and co-heiress of John, 
second Earl of Buckinghamshire and Lord Lieutenant of 
Ireland. 

A settlement, dated 10th March, 1780, was made between 
Armar Lowry Corry of the first part ; the Earl of Bucking- 
hamshire, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor 
of Ireland, and Lady Henrietta Hobart, his eldest daughter, 
of the second part ; Viscount Enniskillen and Robert Lowry, 
of Ballyshannon, esq., of the third part ; Lord Browlow, of 
Belton, in the county of Lincoln, and the Rt. Hon. Thomas 
Conolly, of the fourth part ; and the Earl of Shannon and 
the Earl of Ross of the fifth part. By this deed the Castle- 
coole estate was, by virtue of the powers granted by Mr. 
Armar's will, charged with a jointure of £200, and a sum of 
£2,000 for younger children. Certain other estates in 
Tyrone and Fermanagh, which 1 cannot specify, were settled 
on an elder son by Lady Henrietta, subject to a jointure of 
£1,800 a year and £18,000 for younger children. A power 
was reserved to Mr. Lowry Corry of settling £500 a year 
on a third wife, out of the lands ; of granting leases for 
31 years or three lives; "and of any not exceeding 100 
acres of Sixmilecross for life or lives renewable for ever, 
or for any number of years at the improved rent, &c." 

This quotation is taken from a statement of title. I 
suppose Sixmilecross to mean the Sixmilecross estate, 
and the purpose of the reservation to be the creation of the 

* From page 47. 

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town or village of Beragh or Lowrystown, for which Mr. 
Corry had obtained a patent for holding fairs and markets 
in the ensuing year (see Appendix V). My grandfather, I 
suppose, was intended to have the Castlecoole and Long- 
ford estates, and whatever in Tyrone might have been 
settled on the occasion of his father's marriage with Lady 
Margaret Butler. That settlement is missing, and in its 
absence I cannot speak with certainty. 

The sole issue, however, of the second marriage of my great 
grandfather, was a daughter, Louisa Mary Anne Julia Harriet, 
born in 1781, who was afterwards Countess of Sandwich, and 
who died as recently as 1862. To her retentive memory of in- 
cidents in her early home, which at the time of her death she 
had not revisited for the best part of sixty years, I am in- 
debted for my knowledge of a good many of the events, 
which took place in connexion with the family at this 
period, and particularly for being able to identify several of 
the family pictures at Castlecoole. Lady Sandwich besides 
taking the £20,000 (Irish) settled on younger children, 
eventually inherited, I believe, considerable real property in 
England throuo-h her mother. I doubt, however, if her 
mother ever enjoyed this property in her lifetime. Her 
(Lady Henrietta's) immediate fortune of £20,000, British, 
was paid over to her husband, which seems to have been 
the practice of those days. 

On the 15th December, 1780, a warrant passed the Privy 
Seal in England, and on the 6th January, 1781, a patent 
received the Great Seal in Ireland, for creating Armar Lowry 
Corry a peer of the kingdom of Ireland, by the title of 
Baron Belmore of Castlecoole, in the county of Fermanagh. 
This title was taken (it has been said at the instance of his 
wife) from a mountain in the count} 7 which is in view of 
Castlecoole, but with which he had nothing to do as re- 
garded ownership. Lord Belmore was succeeded in the 
representation of Tyrone by Nathaniel Montgomery, esq. 
On the 4th February, 1782, he was introduced in the House 
of Lords by a Viscount and a Baron, only one Baron being 
present. 

" The House being informed that the Lord Baron Belmore waited 
at the door to be introduced, and taking notice that there was 
but one Lord Baron in the House, it is ordered by the Lords 
Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled that the Lord 
Baron Belmore be introduced by a Viscount and a Baron." — 
(Lords' Journals.) 

He was consequently introduced by Viscount Ranelagh 
and Lord Annalv. 



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From the fact of his name being included in a return of 
absentees about this period, I conclude that he visited Eng- 
land, possibly after his marriage. He appears to have been 
put down as owning £5,000 a year, a nominal income which 
must have been considerably below the reality. His absence 
could not have been of very long duration, for his name 
appears amongst the Peers attending the House of Lords, 
in every year for some years to come after taking his seat. 

On the 3rd May, 1782, Lord Belmore voted in the minority 
in the House of Lords against a bill called the Protestant 
Dissenters' Relief Bill. This bill related to marriages by 
ministers not of the Established Church. The numbers 



were — 








For the bill — Present, 


. 29. 




With Proxies, 


. 35. 




Against the bill — Present, 


. 20. 




With Proxies, 


. 23. 



Lord Belmore joined in signing a protest against this 
bill, as did his brother-in-law, Lord Enniskillen, and the 
Primate (Robinson, sometime Lord Rokeby) .* Amongst 
the reasons for the protest I find the following : — 

" For this bill gives to such marriages all the rights and benefits 
of those celebrated by the clergy of the Established Church, but 
does not subject them to the same objections." 

On the 22nd July, 1782, Lord Belmore voted against 
adjourning to that day two months, the committee on a bill 
for better securing the freedom of elections, by disqualifying 
revenue officers from voting, and joined in signing a protest. 

On the 16th March, 1784, Viscount Farnham, the Bishop 
of Ferns, Lord Gosford, and Lord Belmore were permitted 
to sign a memorial to the House of Commons — about what 
does not appear. 

On the 23rd February, 1785, Lord Belmore was granted 
leave of absence for a month, leaving his proxy ; and on the 
6th September he joined in the following protest : — 
" Dissentient. 

11 Because having read with the utmost abhorence a bill intro- 
duced this session into the Lower House purporting to contain a 
commercial settlement between Great Britain and Ireland ; but 
striking as we conceive at our fundamental rights, both constitu- 
tional and commercial, from whose baleful effects however this 
kingdom has been happily rescued, we think it our bounden duty 
to protest against that part of the address to His Grace the Lord 
Lieutenant, which seems to indicate an intention of proposing any 

* Richard Robinson, a native of Yorkshire, having been Prebendary of York, and 
Chaplain to the Duke of Dorset, was made Bishop of Killala and Achonry in 1752, 
Ferns and Leighlin 1759, Kildare 1761, and Lord Primate 1765. He died 1794, 

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such measure in future ; and this we do most solemnly in behalf 
of ourselves and of our country. 
" (Signed.) Leinster. 

Powerscourt (by proxy). 

Desart (by proxy). 

Charlemont. 

Belmore (by proxy). 

Mountgarrett." 

To return to matters connected with the estates. 

The following letter, the original of which is in the 
possession of my cousin, Colonel Lowry, of Kochdale, relates 
to the making a millrace for the Beragh Mills, and shows 
the limited extent to which interference with the tenants 
was considered a matter for compensation. Lord Belmore's 
cousin John was the Rev. John Lowry, Rector of Clogherny, 
second son of his uncle, whom he mentions, the Rev. James 
Lowry.* This Mr. John Lowry resigned his living in favour 
of his son James eleven years later, but survived till 1822. 
His father, the former rector, had in 1745 exchanged Clog- 
herny with Dr. Dobbs, for Desertcreight. He died in 1787, 
or in the year preceding. 

"Lord Belmore to his Agent, Mr. Galbraith. 

" Castle Coole, June, 29th, 1783. 
" Dear Samuel, 

" I am so particularly circumstanced that I have given up all 
thoughts of treating with my L T ncle Lowry about the matter of 
Brackey and Bearagh Mills. He is desirous to make a water- 
course agreable to the grant he obtained from my Father, which 
my Cozen John will shew you, and to which I have not any 
objection ; however to prevent any future disputes as to the value 
of the Ground that the Course will go through, I desire that 
whatever agreement my Uncle makes with the tenants about 
the Damage may be committed to paper, otherwise there will be 
continuell disputes. 

" I am, Dear Samuel, 

" Your ever sincere, 

" Belmore." 

" My Uncle wants the eight feet of fall, circumstanced as the 
article sets forth, which do you see properly given of. 
"Samuel Galbraith, esq., Omagh. 

" By virtue of this Letter I authorize the Rev. James Low ry 
to take eight feet Fall agreeable to his grant from the late Gal- 
braith Lowry Corry, esq. 

"This 2nd day of July, 1783, 
" present " Samuel Galbraith. 

" Samuel Strean. 

* The Rev. James Lowry entered Trinity College, Dublin, 1725 or 1726. 
He graduated b.a., 1730, and m.a., 1733. 



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Endorsed : — 

" Samuel Galbraith's orders for Eight feet fall. 

" Mr. Lowiy begs, as Mr. Strean is at Clougherny, that Mr. 
Galbraith will be so kind to take potluck to-morrow after settling 
the Business of the inclosed, which can be done in half an hour." 

Bracky, mentioned in the foregoing letter, is a townland 
which pays a head-rent to the estate. The fee-farm interest, 
or the greater part of it, had been acquired by Lord 
Belmore's uncle, Robert Lowry,* the younger, who, in his 
will, dated 24th February, 1764, left " one moiety and three- 
fifths part of the other moiety of the town and lands of 
Brackey with the corn mill thereon, and the grist, toll, 
mulcture, and succon thereof, purchased from the Kyles by 
John M'Clintock and John Perry in trust for me " to his 
brother James (Colonel Lowry's ancestor), subject, of course, 
to the head-rent. With regard to the latter, Colonel Lowry 
informs me (January 13th, 1881) — 

" I only possess -||- of Brackey. The remainder is held by 
Galbraiths and McKelvys, who pay me between them 18s. \^d. 
How this amount is made out I do not know, but I send you two 
papers with this, which explain why I pay you £6 3s. Id. : — 1st. 
A conveyance to trustees, for Robert Lowry of Melbury, of half 
Brackey, in which it states that £3 6s. 8d. is payable thereout to 
Robt. Lowry, sen. 2nd. Robert Lowry of Melbury's will leaving 
Brackey to the Rev. James, from whom I hold it. 

" I may mention that I have other papers conveying the rest 
of Brackey (i.e. ^-ths) to Robt. of Melbury, &c, &c." 

The deed of conveyance of half Bracky in trust for Robert 
Lowry, jun., recites that for and in consideration of £250 
paid to James Kyle, of Bragky, gent., and to William 
Heslett, of Cooley, gent., and £450 to Wm. Kyle, of Braghy, 
gent., they convey to John M'Clinctoch, of Trintagh, county 
Donegal, gent., and John Perry of in the county 

Tyrone, gent., one moiety of Bracky together with one 
moiety of the corn mill therein, with the grist, toll, or 
mulcture belonging thereto, and their heirs for ever, free 
from all incumbrances, except the rent of £3 6s. 8d. payable 
to Robert Lowry, senior. 

In or about 1783 Lord Belmore made a considerable ad- 
dition to his demesne at Castlecoole. The public road to 
Dublin, which ran past the end of the oak avenue (which 
was probably planted in Mr. Armar's time) and up to the 
old house, was diverted at the place where the two old 
Enniskillen gate lodges (now the oldest houses in the 

* Vide Robert Lowry the younger's will, page 28. 



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demesne) are situate, and carried along the eastern side of 
Lough Yoan, joining the old Dublin road again in the town- 
land of Glasmuliagh. The former road ran over the shoulder 
of Gortgonnell hill — the new one avoided the hill, running 
along the foot of the other hill in Gortgonnell townland, 
known as Standingstone. This hill is so called from a very- 
large piece of stone, weighing perhaps two or three tons, 
which stands on the very highest part of the hill. It is a 
piece of Silurian conglomerate of the same description as 
" the hard rocks of Lisbellaw," distant about three miles ; 
and was probably left upon the top of this hill, which is of 
a formation of an entirely different character, during the 
glacial period. The old tradition is, that there was once a 
giant, who having occasion to step from Cuilcagh mountain 
to Toppid mountain, made this rock his intermediate step- 
ping stone. The effect of this diversion of the road was to 
increase the demesne considerably. Parts of Killenure and 
Standingstone, formerly on the opposite side of the publicroad, 
were thrown into it, whilst two farms in Standingstone and 
Derrymakeen, held by Magennis and Martin, persons pro- 
bably of the family of Richard Magennis and Sarah Martin* 
mentioned in Mr. and Mrs. Armar's wills, were also added 
to it, being made into two large fields. The field now 
known as Standingstone hill, is one of the best pieces of 
grazing land in Fermanagh. A large double ditch widen- 
ing in places into a screen, and planted with trees, became 
the new boundary of the demesne. Some of these trees 
have now become very fine ones, particularly the beeches. 
One of the latter was cut down last year and sold with its 
branches for spool wood ; it produced seventeen tons weight 
of saleable wood. It had a large spreading head, which as 
the tree was sold by weight and not by measurement 
contained a great deal of profitable wood. Had it been 
sold by measurement most of this w r ould have been lost. 

It is evident that at this time the surface of Lough Yoan 
must have been somewhat lowered. In fact a large map of 
the demesne, apparently made at this time, showing what it 
was, and what it was proposed to make it, proves that the 
water came much nearer to the road than it now does. The 
road round Lough Coole, (which also shows signs of having 
been at some time lowered), was partly utilized as an ap- 
proach to Castlecoole, and a short branch connecting it with 
the public road at the point of divergence of the new and 
old roads nearest to Enniskillen was made, and the two 

* Or possibly by Sarah herself. 



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gate houses were built. On this side of the demesne (the 
north side) some of the townparks were thrown into it, in 
that part of Killenure known as the Flaxfield and Killenure 
Hill, and the present screen continued towards Agharainy. 
It was subsequently carried on to the Tempo-road, I pre- 
sume when that road was made about eighty years ago. To 
the south, the demesne was enlarged by taking in (besides 
Standings tone and Derrymakeen hills) a strip of Thomas- 
town, Bonny brooke, and Bally lucas, thus bringing the de- 
mesne to the road leading to Toppid mountain. This road 
was connected with the new Dublin road by a short branch 
from a place called Casey's Cross. A screen of timber was 
planted on this side also (except along the back of Miltown 
Hill where there was only a single row of trees). This 
screen joined Mr. Armar's additions to the demesne on the 
east side in Carrowmacmea, and had the effect of including 
the Horse Parks in the demesne. A large double ditched 
fence (lately taken away) which crossed the Horse Parks 
was evidently of older date than Lord Belmore's screen. 

The rental fixes the date of this improvement, by show- 
ing the deductions of the value of the land taken into hands, 
from the tenants' rent. I can see no record of any com- 
pensation having been paid to the tenants under the head 
of tenant-right. The ground taken in required no doubt 
extensive improvement, in the way of levelling fences, and 
improving and laying down the land. 

These alterations probably took some little time to carry 
out ; and the next one I have to mention, is the building of 
the present house of Castlecoole. The late Mr. Samuel 
Galbraith, of Greenmount, county Tyrone, who was son of 
one of the former Tyrone agents, told me that my great 
grandfather had some idea of building his new house near 
Omagh, and forming a demesne, between the rivers which 
flow by Crevenagh and Campsey, uniting at Omagh. One 
is called the Camowan river. Over this river there is a 
bridge, called the Bloody Bridge, in consequence of some 
skirmish during the wars, probably in King James II. 's 
time. Lord Belmore, however, finally decided upon building 
at Castlecoole, which is a better site, owing to the formation 
of the ground, the lakes, and the superior mountain views, 
in addition to the fact, that there was already there a certain 
amount of timber, for which the soil is better suited than 
that of the other site In May, 1788, he began to prepare 
the site of the new house by levelling a considerable space, 
part of which I understand was lowered about twelve feet, 
in addition to excavating the ground for the basement and 



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the tunnel* leading from the kitchen to the present offices, 
(which latter, however, were built by his son). He pur- 
chased his own materials, and did the work by day-work. 
The weekly pay sheets are all preserved at Castlecoole, and 
extend over ten years and a half, to November, 1798. I gather 
from a letter from Mr. Stewart, his clerk of the works or resident 
architect, that the house was roughly estimated to cost 
about £30,000. By the time that it was finished, it had 
cost about £54,000, and taken about double the time to build 
that was expected. The work, however, is exceedingly well 
done. Mr. J ames Wyatt, senior, was the architect. There are 
some slightly varying plans at Castlecoole, by a Mr. Johnston. 

The house is faced with Portland stone. This was sent 
to Ireland in the brig " Martha," chartered for the purpose, 
and which seems ultimately to have been lost. The 
stone was landed at Bally shannon, in Donegal Bay. It was 
then carted with oxen for about ten miles to Lough Erne. 
From thence it was conveyed to Enniskillen in lighters, and 
finally carted to Castlecoole. The entire cost of procuring, 
quarrying, and sawing the stone at Portland, as well 
as at Castlecoole, was about £12,000 Irish. The stone 
for the basement part of the house and the interior walls, 
seems to have been quarried in the deerpark at Castle- 
coole, and to be a sort of quartz. The walls were pretty 
well up, by the end of 1793. The joiner's and carpenter's 
work took a long time, and was not finished till November, 
1798. The house, however, was inhabited by the family 
before all was completed ; in fact the old house was acci- 
dentally burnt down, in 1797, it is said, through an ashpan 
having been left upon the staircase. 

There is a good coloured print of Castlecoole in the fourth 
volume of " The County Seats of Great Britain and Ireland," 
edited by Mr. Morris, and published a few years ago. The 
house, which is about 280 feet in length, is a Grecian one, 
and consists of a centre, and two wings with colonnades. 
The wings consist only of a basement, and one story of 
family rooms. The centre of the house has above the base- 
ment, on the ground floor five reception rooms — one of them 
(the saloon) an oval room. The other four, the drawing- 
room, dining-room, library and billiard-room, are thirty-six 
feet long by twenty-four feet wide and eighteen high. The 
principal hall is to the front : the staircase hall is on the 
west side, between the library and drawing room. 

* This tunnel was originally longer than it is now. It is most useful, as it is 
wide enough to allow carts to unload, opposite the kitchen and to turn round. It 
contains side arches for turf. 



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Up-stairs there are bed-rooms and dressing-rooms, and a 
large bow-windowed sitting-room. A large lobby in the 
centre of this part of the house is lighted by a skylight. 
Round this is a gallery with pillars, lighted with two 
additional skylights, and into this gallery a number of rooms 
open. These, though called attics, were mostly intended 
for visitors ; and several of them are very good rooms, were 
it not that their windows are too high up, so as to suit the 
exterior architecture of the house, which has a stone balus- 
trade, running nearly all round, behind which are these 
windows. 

The backstairs are of stone, and run from top to bottom of 
the house, on the opposite side of the centre, from the 
principal staircase. The basement is fireproof, the ceilings 
consisting of turned arches. 

The doors of the reception rooms, the front and staircase 
hall, and of the sitting-room up stairs, and of the best 
rooms are of mahogany, wherever they abut on the principal 
parts of the house. The reception rooms have double doors. 
In the saloon the interior doors are painted in patterns. 

The mouldings, cornices and some of the ceilings are very 
well executed, and were by a Mr. Rose, of London. There 
are two scagliola pillars in the front hall, and two pilasters 
on the front staircase, by Mr. Bartoli. In each of the four 
principal reception rooms, and in the front hall (where are 
two fireplaces), there are very handsome marble chimney- 
pieces, sculptured in London, by Westmacott. The floors 
of the rooms on the ground-floor, and of the lobby are of 
oak. There are rather high wainscotings in the rooms on the 
two principal floors. 

On the 23rd Dec, 1789, Lord Belmore was created a 
Viscount, as Viscount Belmore, of the county of Fermanagh. 
On the 3rd Feb., 1790,* he was introduced into the House 
of Lords in his robes, between Viscount Mountgarrett and 
Viscount Ranelagh, also in their robes, the Gentleman 
Usher of the Black Rod and Ulster King-at-Arms in his 
coat of arms, carrying his patent, preceding, 

On the opening of a new Parliament on the 2nd July, 
1790, Lord Belmore took the oath, together with a number 
of other peers ; and afterwards with Viscount Gosford, intro- 
duced Viscount Wicklow, whose late father, formerly Lord 
Clonmore, having been created a Viscount in the twenty- 
fifth year of His Majesty's reign, had never been introduced. 

His son, my grandfather, having when a boy received a 
serious injury to his right leg, which caused a permanent 

* Irish Lords* Journals* 



2m 

lameness, was sent abroad, and made a tour to Lisbon and to 
places in the Mediterranean. Two small MS. notebooks, 
written in 1791-2, contain a journal which he wrote of 
this voyage. When he left England, it is said that he was 
hardly expected to return, and that in afterlife he came 
upon a letter from the tutor who accompanied him abroad 
to his father, to the effect that he would probably never 
see him again alive. He, however, made a complete re- 
covery of his general health ; but he never could ride upon 
a man's saddle, but rode (and in his younger days to 
hounds), upon a saddle like a lady's saddle turned the 
wrong way. 

In 1794 Lord Belmore married his third wife, Mary 
Anne, eldest daughter of Sir John Caldwell, of Castle Cald- 
well, county Fermanagh. The settlement made on the 
occasion of this marriage, charged the Longford estate. A 
jointure of £1,000 a year, Irish, was settled on Lady Bel- 
more, who outlived not only her husband, but her stepson 
also. She usually during her widowhood resided at Bath, 
and survived until 1841. There was no issue of this 
marriage. 

In 1795 Lord Corry came of age, and he and his father 
passed a fine to Mr. David Babington, and suffered what 
was called a " common recovery " of the estates. This was 
the old way of disentailing landed property. The phrase- 
ology was curious, and I subjoin an extract from " the 
recovery " of the Tyrone portion of the estates : — 

(Copy.) 
"Michaelmas, 1795. 

" Attested Copy Recovery by the Right Honourable Armar. 
Lord Belmore, of Lands in the county Tyrone. 

" Pleas at the King's Courts, before Hugh, Lord Carleton, and 
his brethren Justices of the Lord George the Third, by the Grace 
of God, of Great Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of 
the Faith, and so forth, of his Common Bench of his Kingdom of 
Ireland, of Michaelmas Term, in the Thirty -sixth year of his 
Reign. 1795, Farnham. 

" County of Tyrone, to wit. 
" Charles King, of the City of Dublin, Esq., personally demands 
against David Babington, of the said city, Esq., all that and 
those, the Mannors or reputed Mannors, and Lordships, Castles, 
Messuages, AdvowsoD, or Right of Presentation, Lands, Tene- 
ments, and Hereditaments hereinafter mentioned, that is to say, the 
Manor of Finagh, otherwise Sixmilecross, and also one moiety of the 
Advowson and right of presentation of and to the Parish of Tennon- 



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magoirk, and also the Castle, two hundred messuages, two hundred 
cottages, two hundred gardens, twenty orchards, one hundred 
tofts, ten mills, ten pigeon houses, five thousand acres of arable 
land, five thousand acres of pasture, one thousand five hundred 
acres of meadow, five hundred acres of wood and underwood, two 
thousand acres of furze and heath, four thousand acres of bog and 
mountain, and two thousand acres of moor, with the appurtenances 
in Finagh, otherwise Sixmilecross, Aghneglea, Cully otherwise* 
Corballytachen, otherwise Corballeyfacken, Cavenreagh, otherwise 
Cavanreagh, otherwise Cavenneagh, Cullisker, otherwise Tullisker, 
Cornecammon, otherwise Cornocammon, Brughy, Ballintram, other- 
wise Ballintraine, Benerane, otherwise Bencrane, otherwise Ben- 
orane, otherwise Bencrone, Bearagh, otherwise Beragh, Ballyhal- 
laghan, otherwise Ballehallaghan, "Drumlider (Drumlister), Callagh, 
otherwise Cullogh, being part of Drumlister, Dirrore, DiiToren 
Upper, Dirroren Lower, Buggery, Drumduffe, Derneraghroy, 
(Dervaghroyj Killcam, Laragh, Lisboy, Liskincon, Bamaken, 
Radergan, Clonenure, otherwise Clonemure, Boscarry, otherwise 
Roscary, otherwise Roscavy, Banelly, otherwise Bavelly, Raw, 
Toneragee (Tanderagee), Tullyherim, otherwise Tullyherm, Tatty- 
kerim, otherwise Tattikiran, otherwise Tattukeran, otherwise 
Tattykeran, Tullyneal, otherwise Tullyneall, Drumskenny, Usk- 
nagh, otherwise Elsuagh,and the town of Finagh, otherwise called 
Sixmilecross, &c, &c, and four tenements on the north side of said 
town of Sixmilecross, and one tenement on the south side of the 
said town, &c, &c, with all Courts Leet, Courts Baron, "View of 
Frankpledge, &c, &c, and also all duties and customs of fairs and 
markets, services and franchises, belonging to or to be kept within 
the said manor and premises or any part thereof, and also all 
lands, tenements, and hereditaments reputed and taken to be part 
of said manor (except the lands of Upper Cloghfin, Lower Cloghfin, 
Ballykeel, Aghulgar (Athnagar), Eskermore, Bacassan, and Killy- 
dron, being part or reputed part of the said manor, but are to 
remain subject to the jurisdiction, thereof in the same manner as 
they are at present), and also the right of presentation of him the 
said Viscount Belmore to one moiety of the advowson of the 
parish of Termonmagork or right thereof that did belong to Robert 
Lowry, Esq., the elder, and also a yearly fee farm rent of three 
pounds thirteen shillings and four pence, issuing out of the said 
lands of Ranelly, and a yearly fee farm rent of three pounds thirteen 
shillings and four pence, issuing out of the said lands of Tully- 
herim, &c, &c. Also all those the towns and lands of A herns, 
otherwise Agherns (Aghenis), Arvallees, otherwise Arvalees, 
Aghagallan, otherwise Aghagallon, otherwise A ghagullan, Ballyboy, 
Beaghs, Cranny, Cornemuckellogh, Cornebrack, otherwise Corne- 
breehan, otherwise Cornebrackan, Drumgrane, Edenderry, other- 
wise Eddenderry, Tuck Mill and Corn Mill, Edenafagra, otherwise 
Edenafogra, Talloghirn, Garvaghys, Killigivan, otherwise Killy- 
givem, Killadroy, Killymonan, otherwise Killiraonan, otherwise 
* The v/ord Tully should have been inserted here. 



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Killymenan, and about eight acres in the townland of Laghinabb, 
otherwise Loughinabb, otherwise Loughinanabb, otherwise Lough- 
manabb, Lissnacoppan, otherwise Lissacoppan, Legacorry, Leatt- 
fearne, otherwise Latefarne, otherwise Leattyfearne, Lisneadin, 
otherwise Lisneaddin, otherwise Lisnendin, Mullagh, Racassan, 
Rakerrenbegg, otherwise Rakerrinbegg, Tully M'Colpan, Tatty- 
mulmony, otherwise Tattymulleany, otherwise Tattymullmory, 
otherwise Tattymullmeany, and Tullycleenagh, otherwise Tully- 
cleanagh, also situate, lying, and being in the said county of Tyrone, 
and also all that and those the towns and lands of Aghadarra, 
Aghy, Brym, Campson, Upper Cravenagh, Lower Cravenagh, 
Corryharky, Curlaghdorgan, Cavanamore, Corbally, otherwise 
Corwelly, Cornalla, Carraghamulkin, otherwise Corraghamulkin, 
Callow, Drumhirk, otherwise Drumkirk, Drumaretts, Drumarett 
East, Drumarett West, Drissoge, otherwise Dressoge, Drumshell, 
Dromlish, Derrynaseer, Drumsera, Downaree, Drumny, Fartlagh- 
more, G-albelly, Glengeen, otherwise Glengeens, Gortnagullen, 
Crenew, Knocknahorn, Lisduff, Legfreshy, Minegar, otherwise 
Minager, Multenatumoy, Minisroghan, otherwise Munisrighan, 
Oghill, Rahawny-Foster, Rahawny-Martin, Rossrey, Tatakell, 
otherwise Tatukell, and Tatecor, also situate, lying, and being in 
the county of Tyrone aforesaid, as his right and inheritance, and 
into which the said David hath not entry, until after the disseizen, 
which Hugh Blake thereof unjustly and without judgment made 
to the said Charles, within twenty years now last past, and where- 
upon he says, that he was seized of the said manor, castles, rents, 
royalties, and tenements, with the appurtenances, in his demesne, 
as of fee and right in the time of peace, in the time of the present 
lord the king, by the taking the profits thereof, to the value and 
so forth, and wherein, and so forth, and therefore he brings his 
suit, and so forth, and the said David, personally comes and 
defends his right, when and so forth, and thereupon calls to war- 
ranty, the Right Honorable Armar Lord Belmore, of the Kingdom 
Ireland, who is personally present here in court, and freely war- 
rants the said manor, castles, rents, royalties, moiety, and tene- 
ments with the appurtenances, except as aforesaid, to him and so 
forth, and hereupon the said Charles demands against the said 
Armar Lord Belmore, tenant by his warranty, the said manor, 
&c, in form aforesaid, and so forth, and whereupon he says that 
he was seized of the said manor, &c., in his demesne, as of fee and 
right, and of the said moiety, as of fee and right, in the time of 
peace, Ac, &c, by taking the profits, etc., etc., and therefore he 
brings his suit, and so forth ; and the said Armar Lord Belmore. 
tenant by his warranty, defends his right, when and so forth ; and 
thereupon further calls to warranty, Somerset Lowry Corry, his 
only son and heir-apparent, who is personally present here in 
court, and freely warrants the said manor, etc. , ttc. , and so forth ; 
and hereupon the said Charles demands against the said Somerset, 
tenant by his warranty, the said manor, <kc, &c, and therefore he 
brings his suit ; and the said Somerset, tenant by his warranty, 



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defends his right, when and so forth, and thereupon further calls 
to warranty Thomas Blake, who is likewise personally present here 
in court, and freely warrants the said manor, &c, &c. ; and here 
upon the said Charles, demands against the said Thomas, tenant 
by his warranty, the said manor, &c, and so forth, &c., &c, and 
therefore he brings his suit, and so forth ; and the said Thomas, 
tenant by his warranty, defends his right, when and so forth, and 
says, that the said Hugh did not disseize the said Charles of the 
said manor, &c, as the said Charles by his writ and declaration, 
doth above suppose ; and of this he puts himself upon the country, 
and so forth ; and the said Charles prays leave to impare, and he 
hath it, and so forth, and afterwards the said Charles came again 
personally here into court, in this same term, and the said Thomas, 
though solemly required, came not again, but departed in contempt 
of the court, and made default- Therefore it is considered that 
the said Charles, do recover against the said David, full seizin of 
the said manor, &c, &c, and that the said David have of the land 
of the said Armar Lord Belmore to the value, and so forth ; and 
that the said Armar Lord Belmore, further have of the land of the 
said Somerset to the value, and so forth ; aud that the said Somer- 
set further have of the land of the said Thomas to the value, and 
so forth ; and the said Thomas in mercy and so forth. And here- 
upon the said Charles prays a writ of the lord the king, to be 
directed to the sheriff of the county of Tyrone aforesaid, to cause 
full seizen of the said manor, &c, &c, to be delivered to him, and 
it is granted to him returnable here, on the octave of St. Hilary, 
at which day came here the said Charles personally, and the 
sheriff, namely George Lenox Conyngham, esq., now returns that 
he, by virtue of the said writ to him directed on the 24th day of 
December last past, caused full seizen of the said manor, &c, &c, 
to be delivered to the said Charles, as by the said writ he was 
commanded. 

Towards the end of 1797, or early in 1798, there was a 
general election. Lord Corry was elected for the county of 
Tyrone, and also for Ballyshannon, county Donegal, one of 
his father's boroughs. He succeeded Mr. Knox in Tyrone. 
He of course elected to sit for Tyrone, and was succeeded in 
the borough by Sir William Richardson, bart. 

About the same time (20th November, 1797) Viscount 
Belmore was created Earl Belmore of the county of Fer- 
managh. His patent had passed the Privy Seal on October 
9th. On the 9th June, 1798, he was in the usual manner 
introduced into the House of Lords, between the Earl of 
Enniskillen, and the Earl of Erne. 

I may here mention, that in all the coats of arms attached 
to his patents of peerage, a griffin's head is used for a crest, 
instead of the Lowry crest — a wreath of laurels, or the Corry 
crest — a cock. For many years this griffin's head was used 
by the family. On one occasion I was talking to Sir 



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Bernard Burke upon the subject, in his office in the Record 
Tower in Dublin Castle, when he examined a book contain- 
ing a list of crests. We found that the griffin's head be- 
longed to an English family named Cory, spelt with one "r." 
From this we concluded, that it had been originally inserted 
in the first patent by an act of carelessness in Ulster's office. 
In 1799, the Government had determined to bring in a 
bill for the union of Great Britain and Ireland. To this 
policy Lord Belmore and Lord Corry were very strongly 
opposed. The address in answer to the Lord Lieutenant, 
the Marquis of Cornwallis' speech was moved in the House 
of Lords, on the 22nd January. The last paragraph of the 
speech ran thus : — 

" The unremitting industry with which our enemies persevere 
in their avowed design of endeavouring to effect a separation of 
this Kingdom from Great Britain must have engaged your parti- 
cular attention, and His Majesty commands me to express his 
anxious hope, that this consideration, joined to the sentiment of 
mutual affection and common interest, may dispose the Parliaments 
in both Kingdoms, to provide the most effectual means of main- 
taining and improving a connection essential to their common 
security, and of consolidating as far as possible, into one firm and 
lasting fabric, the strength, the power, and the resources of the 
British Empire." 

To the corresponding paragraph, in the address in reply 
to His Excellency's speech, three amendments were succes- 
sively moved and negatived. A protest was then entered 
on the journals and signed by the following members of the 
minority, viz. : — 

Leinster. Kilkenny. 

Granard. Belmore 

Belvedere. Powerscourt. 

Arran. De Vesci. 

Charlemont. William Down and Connor. 

Bellamont. Dunsany. 

Mount Cashell. Lismore. 

On the 12th March, 1799, on the occasion of the third 
reading of a bill for the suppression of the Rebellion, a 
division took place in the House of Lords. The numbers 
were, Contents 19, Not contents 4. Proxies having been 
called, it was found that the Contents, with the proxies, 
were, 26, Not contents, with a proxy, 5. A long protest was 
then entered on the journals. Amongst the reasons which 
were assigned by the Dissentients were these, viz., because 
whilst they abhorred the Rebellion they could not be per- 
suaded that those partial evils " can justify the passing of 
an Act, by which not only the forms, but the essence of 



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the Constitution is universally subverted, and the freedom 
of our Civil Government is changed to Military Despotism," 
and because it enables Government " to inflict death on 
the subjects of this Realm, without any rule by which 
criminality is to be inferred or punishment apportioned ; 
and whilst it creates this authority hitherto unknown to 
the Laws of this Kingdom, by which the functions of Legis- 
lators, Judges, and Jurors are united in the same person, it 
does not even require the form of a military trial to ascertain 
the facts upon which the penalties ot the Act are to attach." 
To these, three further reasons were added. This protest 



was signed : — 




Leinster. 


Strangford. 


Arran. 


Ludlow (by proxy), 


Belmore. 


Charlemont.* 



The Union Bill was lost in 1799 by a majority of one in 
the House of Commons,t but the Ministry of Mr. Pitt per- 
severed in the following session. 

On the 10th February a motion for an address to concur 
in a Bill for the Union was, on the motion of Lord Chan- 
cellor Clare, carried in the Upper House ; the numbers being, 
Contents 53, Not contents 19. Proxies having been called, 
the Contents, with proxies, were 75, the Not contents, with 
proxies, 26. The other speakers in this debate were — For 
the Bill, Lords Glentworth, Donoughmore, and Kilwarden ; 
against it, Lords Dillon, Powerscourt, Farnham, and Bella- 
mont. The Lord Chancellor spoke for four hours.J 

A protest was entered which was signed : — 

Leinster. Enniskillen. 

Downshire. Belmore (by proxy). 

Pery (by proxy). Dillon. 

Meath. Strangford. 

Granard. Powerscourt. 

Ludlow (by proxy). De Yesci (by proxy). 

Moira (by proxy). William Down and Connor. 

Arran. Richard Waterford and 

Charlemont. Lismore. 

Kingston. Louth. 

Mount Cashell. Lismore. 

Farnham. Sunderlin. 

Massy (by proxy). 

A separate protest was also signed : — 

" Blaney. Bellamont." 

* Assuming the rule to have been the same in the Irish, as in the British House 
of Lords, it may be noticed as an irregularity that more peers signed this protest, 
than took part in the division. 

t The Division Lists in both Houses will be found in Appendix W. 

% " The Constitution or Anti- Union Evening Post." February 11th, 1800. 



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The Union Bill having passed the House of Commons, 
was received in the House of Lords on Monday, June 9th, read 
a first time, and ordered to be read a second time on the follow- 
ing Wednesday. It was read a second time on that day with- 
out debate or division, but a discussion arose on the question 
of the committee being appoined for the next day, which 
however appears to have been confined to three opposition 
peers, the Earls of Farnham, Altamont, and Bellamont ; the 
Lord Chancellor only rising to points of order. A division 
took place, when the numbers were : — 

Contents, . 45 Not contents, . 1 1 

Proxies, . 31 Proxies, . . 6 

76 17 

The next day the Bill was committed, gone through with- 
out amendment, and reported after some discussion in which 
Lords Farnham, Bellamont, and the Lord Chancellor again 
took part, and was ordered to be read a third time next day — 
Friday, June 13th. I can find in the " Constitution " news- 
paper no report of this day's proceedings ; but it appears 
from the Lords' Journals, that a final division took place 
when the Contents were 41, or with proxies 73 ; Not con- 
tents 14, or with proxies 21. The majority was therefore 
52. A protest against the Bill was entered on the journals 
by the Earl of Bellamont, and another was signed by the 
following peers : — 

Leinster. Strangford. 

Arran. Granard. 

Mount Cashell. Ludlow (by proxy). 

Farnham. Moira (by proxy) for the 8th, 

Belmore (by proxy). 10th, and 11th reasons. 

Massey (by proxy). William Down and Connor. 

Richard Waterford Riversdale (by proxy). 

AND LlSMORE. MEATH. 

Powerscourt. Lismore (by proxy). 

De Yesci. Sunderlin, except for the 7th 

Oharlemont. reason. 

Kingston (by proxy). 

A little later, on the 27th of June, a motion was made and 
negatived, to discharge the order for reading the third time, 
a bill to compensate " Bodies Corporate and Individuals in 
respect of Cities, Towns, and Boroughs which shall cease to 
send any members to Parliament after the Union, and to make 
compensation to those persons, whose offices may be thereby 
discontinued or diminished in value." This compensation 



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was only to be granted in respect of boroughs, &c., entirely 
disfranchised. £15,000 was the sum to be paid in each case 
for the two seats. 

Two protests were entered against this measure — one by 
the Earl of Bellamont who assigned no reason. For the 
other, various reasons were given. Amongst them were — 
because the principle upon which the Bill was founded, 
viz., that justice required, that compensation should be made 
to towns, &c, was an acknowledgment that representation 
of Ireland in the Imperial Parliament was inadequate for 
the purpose of securing the liberties of her people. 
Because the Bill was a cloak to compensate individuals. 
Because the charging £1,400,000 on Ireland — the amount 
fixed by the Bill — " is making her a purchaser of the Union, 
and paying that sum as a consideration for the merger of 
her Parliament into that of Great Britain." 

Probably Lord Farnham was the author of the reasons 
given for this protest, as it was signed — 

Farnham. 

Belmore (by proxy). 
Massey (by proxy). 

This seems to have been the last act of Lord Belmore's 
parliamentary life. It appears from letters preserved 
amongst his Tyrone agent's vouchers, that he had seriously 
embarrassed his affairs. He seemed to have attempted to 
build the new house of Castlecoole out of his income, and 
it had cost a great deal more than he expected. In 1790, 
he had had an estimate made of the income derived from 
his various estates, from which it appears that his gross 
rental then exceeded £13,000 a year Irish (or £12,000 
English) currency, whilst the charges on the estate were 
only a little over £25,000. In a similar memorandum made 
in 1812, ten years after his death, his debts were put down 
at £70,000, whilst family and other charges which came 
into force by that event, had swollen the amount to about 
£100,000, in addition to annuities. In his latter days he 
resided a good deal at Bath, where he was negotiating for 
the purchase of a house in the Crescent, at the time of his 
death. My grandfather completed the purchase of this 
house, as a jointure house for his stepmother; and it was 
sold after her death in 1841, by my father. 

Lord Belmore, owing to the course he had pursued with 
regard to the Union, shut himself out from any immediate 
chance of being elected as a Representative Peer in the 
Imperial Parliament. For a length of time these peerages 



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were regarded as within the patronage of the Minister of 
the day. So much so, that during the short Administration 
of Lord Grenville, the Whig Earl of Charlemont — a strong 
opponent of the Union — was returned in 1806, for the seat 
vacated by the death of the Earl of Landaff, and which he 
retained until the end of 1863, a period of over fifty-seven 
years. This system continued until, in 1825, John Maxwell 
Barry, fifth Baron Farnham, stood against and defeated the 
Government candidate and so " opened the Peerage." Of 
course the Conservatives having an overwhelming majority, 
always take care to elect a Conservative ; but the inter- 
ference of the leader of the party is confined to advising those 
of his friends who consult him as to whom to vote for, after the 
candidate to be selected for support has been determined on 
at a general meeting of Conservative peers, by the majority 
of those present and voting. The only exception to this 
rule that I remember, was in my own case, where a second 
vacancy occurred by the death of the second Earl of Bandon, 
within three weeks of the death of the late Viscount 
Ha warden, at a time of year when it was impracticable to 
hold a meeting, and when a second candidate had not been 
fixed on at a previous meeting. 

On the 2nd February, 1802, Lord Belmore died suddenly 
at Bath. His daughter, Lady Louisa,* who heard him fall, 
and was the first person to go to him, always believed that 
he was choked by a dose of James' powder (which he 
greatly disliked), having been surreptiously given to him. 
Judging, however, from the very large fee which was given, 
there appears to have been a post mortem examination ; 
and I should be inclined to attribute his death to heart 
disease. 

He was buried at Caledon. The vessel which conveyed 
his corpse was to have landed it at Rostrevor, but owing to 
stress of weather the captain put into Dublin instead. 
There appears, from the account for their entertainment, to 
have been a great gathering of his tenantry, fee., at his 
funeral. These accounts show the careless way in which 
money matters were conducted at the time. One man of 
business calmly states, that he arrived at the total of his 
expenditure, by putting sixty guineas into a bag before he 
left Dublin, and then counting what was left after his 
return. The balance he charged to my grandfather's 
account. 

Lord Belmore, besides commanding for himself or his 
son, when eligible to fill it, one seat for the county 

* Afterwards Lady Sandwich. 



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of Tyrone, had two pocket boroughs * viz. : — Belturbet, 
county Cavan, and Ballyshannon, county Donegal, returning 
between them four members to Parliament. To this cir- 
cumstance I attribute his rapid promotion in the peerage. 
His original elevation to it was possibly more or less owing 
to his being the Lord' Lieutenants' son-in-law, in addition 
to being a very large landed proprietor. 



CHAPTER XIX. 

SOMERSET, SECOND EARL BELMORE. 

As Lord Corry moves the Address in 1798 — Subsequently opposes the 
Union — Colonel of the Tyrone Militia — His Marriage in 1800— His 
family — Succeeds his father in 1802 — His journey to Egypt and the 
Holy Land — Lord Corry elected m.p. for Fermanagh in 1823 — The 
Hon. Henry Corry elected m.p. for in 1825 — Lord Belmore appointed 
Governor-in- Chief of Jamaica in 1828 — Lord Corry seconds the 
Address in 1829 — Subsequently votes against Catholic Emancipation — 
Mr. Corry's marriage in 1830 — His family — Lord Corry's marriage in 
1834 — Lord Belmore's sale of the Longford and part of the Fermanagh 
Estates in 1839— His Death in 1841. 

My grandfather's earlier history has been given in former 
chapters. He was elected to the Parliament which first 
met on the 9th June, 1798, as junior member for Tyrone ; 
his colleague being James Stewart, esq. He was also 
elected for his father's borough of Ballyshannon ; his col- 
league being David Babington, esq. The following entry 
appears in the Commons Journals on the 9th January. 

" The Honorable Somerset Lo wry Corry being chosen a Knight 
of the Shire for the county of Tyrone, and a Burgess for the 
Borough of Ballyshannon in the county of Donegal, made his 
election to serve for the county of Tyrone. 

" And the House being satisfied by the declaration of the said 
Somerset Lowry Corry, commonly called Lord Viscount Corry, 
who was present at the election for the county of Tyrone, and 
also at the election for the Borough of Ballyshannon, that there 
was no contest at either of the said elections ; ordered that Mr. 
Speaker do issue his Warrant to the Clerk of the Crown, to make 
out a new writ for electing a burgess, to serve in the present 
parliament, for the Borough of Ballyshannon in the room of Lord 
Viscount Corry." 

Sir Wm. Richardson, who was chosen for Ballyshannon 
in his room, was sworn in on the 6th Feb., 1798. 

Lord Corry must have made his debut as a speaker at 

* Vide Life of Lord Cornwallis, by Ross. 

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once, by moving the Address to the Crown, in answer to 
the Lord Lieutenant's speech. On Monday, the 15th 
January, 1798, it appears from the Commons' Journals as 
follows : — 

" Ordered that a committee be appointed, to draw up an 
Address to His Majesty upon the said resolution. 

And a committee was appointed of Lord Viscount Corry, Mr. 
Maurice Fitzgerald, and others, or any three or more of them ; 
and they are to meet on Wednesday next at two of the clock in 
the afternoon in the Speaker's chamber." 

On the 18th January, 1798 :— 

" Lord Viscount Corry reported from the Committee appointed 
to draw up an Address to His Majesty, that they had drawn up an 
address accordingly, which he read in this place, and after 
delivered it in at the table, when the same was read and is as 
follows, &c, &c." 

The Union Bill having been rejected in 1799, a message 
from the Lord Lieutenant, recommending the Union, was 
sent down by Lord Viscount Castlereagh, to the House 
of Commons on the 5th February, 1800. Lengthened 
debates followed. Amongst those who opposed the measure 
were Mr. Grattan, Mr. Burrowes, Colonel Vereker, Mr. Pon- 
sonby, Mr. Dobbs and Mr. Beresford.* 

In the debate on the King's Message, on Feb. 21st, Lord 
Corry spoke briefly. He said, he should not discuss the 
details of the measure. He looked upon the Parliament of 
Ireland as incompetent to entertain the proposition. He 
should look on in silence, and give his vote against every 
step that should be taken in the prosecution of the measure. 

On the 25th Lord Corry joined with Mr. O'Donnell, Sir 
John Parnell, Mr. Ponsonby, Colonel Barry, and Mr. 
Osborne in opposing a provision, in a bill for enabling His 
Majesty to accept the voluntary services of the Militia in 
the Line, for dividing the Downshire Regiment into two 
battalions, on the ground that it would increase the patronage 
of the Crown, to be exerted on the measure of the Union. 
The clause was carried by 75 votes to 26. 

On the 13th March Lord Corry seconded a motion made 
by Sir John Parnell, for an address to the Crown for a 
Dissolution of Parliament, before any final arrangement 
should be come to, on the subject of a Legislative Union. 
This motion was defeated by 150 votes to 104. 

On Saint Patrick's day, says "The Constitution" newspaper, 
the Anti-Unionists of both Houses of Parliament dined 
together "at the Commercial Buildings. Never, perhaps, did 

* This was not the Right Hon. Mr. Beresford. 



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the sainted patron of our island, see assembled to pour a liba- 
tion to his honour, so truly respectable a company, as met 
together on this occasion. The door of the building was 
surrounded long before dinner, by a numerous assemblage 
of persons, curious to behold the men, who had so honourably 
and boldly stood forward, to defend the interests and the 
honour of an Irish public." 

On the 23rd April, an Anti-Union dinner took place at 
Cork, Lord Riversdale in the chair. An extract (published 
in the " Constitution") from a letter from Cork, says: 

" A petition to our Most Gracious Sovereign was introduced, 
previous to the convivial indulgences of the day." " Several 
gentlemen expressed themselves in neat and apposite speeches on 
the great occasion which called them together, hut it was 
remarked with peculiar interest and approbation, the manly 
renunciation of former opinion respecting the Union, which many 
took occasion to make." 

Amongst the toasts were the following : — 

The King. 

The Prince of Wales. 

The Constitution of 1782, and may it endure for ever. 

The Duke of York and the army, May they never desert a 

good cause or be employed in a bad one. 
The Duke of Clarence and the Navy. 
Prosperity to Ireland. 
The Duke of Leinster and the Minority of the House of 

Lords. 
The Speaker and the glorious Minority of the House of 

Commons. 
The Marquis of Downshire and the persecuted friends of the 

Constitution. 
The memory of General Lord Charlemont and of those other 

immortal men the Volunteers of Ireland. 
The memory of General Washington. 
Sir John Parnell and the other honest Irishmen who prefer 

their country to the wages of corruption. 
Mr. Grattan, the father of the Irish Constitution. 
Lord Corry and the steady friends of the Constitution in the 

North. 
Sir John Freke and the independence of the County of 

Cork. 

and several other toasts. 

The heads of the Bill appear to have been discussed in 
Committee of the whole House. Leave to bring in the Bill 
was granted on Wednesday, May 21st, by 160 votes to 100. 
Tellers for the ayes Colonel Martin and Dr. Browne — 
tellers for the noes Mr. Ball and Sir Lawrence Parsons. 




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The second reading appears to have been carried with- 
out debate or division on Monday, May 26th, but two 
divisions took place on the question of committing the Bill — 
one as to the committal itself, the other as to the day proposed, 
viz. next Friday. The numbers in the first were 118 ayes 
to 73 noes ; in the second, on Mr. Grattan's amendment 
that the Bill be committed on the 1st August next, the 
numbers were 87 ayes to 104 noes. 

On Thursday, the 5th June, the Bill having been gone 
through, the Chairman left the chair, and the Report was 
ordered to be made next day. 

Lord Corry said he considered it a matter of great pre- 
cipitation to call upon the House to agree to the Report so 
suddenly ; but, as it was pressed, he gave notice he would on 
to-morrow bring forward a motion connected with the Bill. 

On the next day, Friday, June 6th, Lord Corry rose 
shortly after the sitting of the House to make his promised 
motion. He said — that since ever the measure of a Legis- 
lative Union had been proposed in Parliament he had given 
the principle of that measure every opposition in his power. 
He did not mean now to repeat the arguments he had on 
various occasions urged against it, and he was the more 
disinclined to do so as the address, which it was his 
intention to move, would state those arguments in a way 
much more forcible than he could otherwise do ; he, there- 
fore, would detain the House no longer than by moving 
that an address to the following purport be presented to 
His Majesty. — (" The Constitution," June 7th.) 

The address was of great length, and occupies the space 
of more than G.ve columns of the newspaper ; in fact it does 
not all appear on the same day. 

Lord Castlereagh* said, he rose not at present to go into 
a discussion of the merits of the motion which the noble 
lord had made. If the noble lord intended by the motion 
merely to have the sentiments contained in the address on 
the journals of the House he had not the least objection to 
their being so recorded; he should, therefore, treat the 
noble Lord's motion in the most respectful way by meeting 
it fairly on its merits. He would not endeavour to prevent 
it from appearing on the Journals by moving the order of 
the day, nor would he attempt to state those sentiments 
which struck him as proper to be substituted in the address 
to the throne for those the noble lord had read ; at present 
he would offer no further observations on the motion, 

* Lord Castlereagh married a younger sister of Lady H. Hobart, the first Lady 
Belmore. 



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hoping, however, that if anything should be said in the 
course of the debate which he might think called for 
observation the House would not consider him as precluded 
from offering it. Mr. Saurin followed in a very long speech 
in support of the motion. 

After further debate a division was taken, when the 
numbers were 77 for the motion to 135 against — majority 58. 

The order of the day that the Report be read, was carried 
by 155 to 87. 

On the motion by Lord Castlereagh that the Bill be 
engrossed Mr. O'Donel concluded a speech by moving 
"that the Report instead of being engrossed should be 
burned." Mr. Dolway seconded the motion. 

Mr. Tighe moved an amendment to the hon. gentleman's 
motion. " By the hands of the common hangman," " which 
was spiritedly seconded by Mr. Henry Osborne." 

The Right Hon. Mr. Beresford said that if the hon. 
gentleman's motion were persevered with, he would in his 
turn move that his conduct be submitted to the considera- 
tion of the House. 

" Mr. O'Donel having got up to reply, and much warmth 
ensued, the House was cleared." 

On the 7th June, on the third reading of the Bill " Lord 
Corry, in an animated manner observed upon the nature of 
the Bill, and the circumstances attending its progress ; he 
said he had given to that progress every opposition in his 
power, and he hoped it would not be considered that he de- 
serted his duty, if he averted his eye when the last blow 
was given to the constitution of his country ; he therefore 
announced that he would not remain in the House to hear 
the question put on the Bill; he would quit it, and for ever." 

Mr. Dick,* who next to Lord Charlemont, was the longest 
survivor of the Irish Parliament, also opposed the Bill. 

Mr. Plunket having arraigned the means by which the 
Union was carried, was called to order by the Hon. Mr. 
Butler. Another scene ensued and the House was cleared. 
During this day's discussion many Anti-Unionist members 
seceded. 

Mr. O'Donel's motion that the Bill be read a third time 
on the 2nd January, 1801, was negatived, and the Bill was 
read a third time and passed. 

Lord Corry's parliamentary career in Ireland was now 
over. He was m.p. for Tyrone, for one Session in the House 
of Commons in London, but soon after the beginning of the 

*Mr. Quintin Dick was elected for Dunleer, and sat for a part of this session. 
He once told me that he was under age when elected. 



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next his father died. "John Stewart, esq., of Athenree, county 
Tyrone," was returned in his place, on the 1st March 1802. 

Lord Cony was, for some time in his younger days, Colonel 
of the Tyrone Militia. During part of his command the 
regiment was embodied. Later on in life he was Custos 
Rotuloruin of that county, an office now conjoined to that 
of Lieutenant of the county. 

On the 20th October, 1800, he married his cousin,* Lady 
Juliana Butler,+ second daughter of Henry Thomas, Ear] of 
Carrick. By her he had, besides a daughter, Sarah, who 
died an infant, two sons, viz., my father, and the late Right 
Hon. Henry Carry. Mr. Corry having graduated at Christ 
Church, Oxford, was returned on 27th June, 1825, as mem- 
ber for the county of Tyrone, in place of Sir John Stewart. 
bait., deceased. He joined Sir Robert Peel's first adminis- 
tration in December, 1834, as Comptroller of the Household, 
an office which entitled him to be sworn on the Privy 
Council. In Sir Robert's second Ministry, he was first. 
Junior Lord of the Admiralty, and afterwards Secretary of 
that Board. He declined office when Lord Derby came in, 
m 1852, having been a follower of Sir Robert Peel on the 
question of free trade. But in 1858-9 he was again Secre- 
tary to the Admiralty, in Lord Derby's second Ministry. In 
1866 he was appointed Vice-President of the Committee of 
Council on Education, and on the 9th March 1867 he ac- 
cepted the office of First Lord of the Admiralty, and so be- 
came a Cabinet Minister, on his sixty-third birthday — as he 
remarked to Lord Derby, " a very nice birthday present." 
He filled this office with great distinction, until the Govern- 
ment went out of office in December, 1868. 

He married on the 18th March, 1830, Lady Harriet 
Ashley, second daughter of the late Earl of Shaftesbury. 
She died March 25th, 1868. He left two sons. Armar 
Henry, and Montagu William, now Lord Rowton. C.B.. besides 
two daughters, viz., Gertrude, the late Mrs. Batson. and Miss 
Alice Corry, who is Lady in Waiting to H. R. and I. H. the 
Duchess of Edinburgh. 

Lord Belmore after his father's death lived a good deal at 
Castlecoole, which he mainly furnished, his father haying 
done very little in that way. The old house had been burnt 

* The Castlecoole. Clabby. Lcughside. Toppid Mountain, &c, and Finagh 
estates, together with Beagh, Letfern, Legaeorry. and Moylagh. the two Ennis- 
killen tenements, and the park near it. formerly in the possession of John Beard, 
were settled on this occasion, a settlement made by his father on the 23ro. I 
1795. being revoked. The names of Kedagh. Drumrenagh, and Killynan. appear 
in this deed of settlement, which is dated Oct. 20th. 180Q. 

t Her elder sister Ladv A.nne, was mother of Lord Farnham. 



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in 1797, sharing the fate of two predecessors upon the same 
site. This time, however, the cause was accident or care- 
lessness. The principal furniture and the pictures* had, I 
believe, been removed, and the family had moved into the 
new house, although it was not quite completed, before the 
burning occurred. 

In 1804 Lady Louisa Corry married Viscount Hinching- 
brook, afterwards Earl of Sandwich. She had three chil- 
dren, viz., the present earl, the Countess Waleski, and the 
late Lady Ashburton. 

Lord Belmore for a time kept hounds at Castlecoole. The 
kennels were between the rookery and Lough Coole. He 
also had a few horses in training, amongst them a horse 
named Buffer, of which there is a picture at Castlecoole. 
He was a little bright bay horse, and, I believe, was tolerably 
successful in winning plates. He had also a horse called Pilot. 

In 1812 it appears that Lord Belmore had an estimate 
made of the then value of his property. It was at that time 
worth about £24,000 a year, or nearly double what it was 
when his father had had an estimate made in 1790, when it 
was put at between £13,000 and £14,000 Irish. But it was 
incumbered to about half its value, as against the very 
moderate incumbrance in 1790, and this notwithstanding 
that the compensation for the boroughs of Belturbet and 
Ballyshannon, disfranchised at the Union, amounted to 
£30,000 Irish. Lord Belmore never possessed, I believe, his 
father's house in Sackville-street, but he had, even before his 
father's death, a very good house of his own in Granby-row, 
now 34 Rutland-square, the Dublin residence of Lord 
O'Hagan. There are two pictures at Castlecoole, supposed 
to be by Sir Peter Lely, (although it has been doubted by 
some if they are genuine). One is a portrait of the first 
Duke of Richmond, as a boy. It was in the loan exhibition 
in South Kensington in 1862. The other is a portrait of 
the Duchess of Portsmouth. These pictures had been in the 
Sackville-street house. 

Before he gave up hunting, Lord Belmore on the 20th 
July, 1809, took a lease of a place called Jerpoint in Kil- 
kenny, from Mr. Edward Hunt, with a view of building a 
hunting box. For this, containing 76 acres 2 roods 15 perches, 
he was for thirteen years to pay two guineas an acre, and 
an annuity of £162 lis. 9^d. to Thomas Cody, who, I sup- 
pose, had the unexpired remainder of a lease against the 
lands, which he gave up. After the thirteen years, he was to 
pay Mr. Hunt £435 12s. Gel. for ever: being at the rate of 

* Amongst the prints at Castlecoole is a set of proof copies of Hogarth's. Lady- 
Sandwich was my authority for this statement. 



five guineas an acre. Lord Belmore began some stables ; but 
gave up hunting before he had built a house. Jerpoint, 
however, was left on his hands, and it was not until the 
19th May, 1853, that the grandson of the original lessee, 
granted a release to my trustees, and took the property back. 

Lord Belmore during these years added considerably to 
the demesne at Castlecoole. Before his time it must have 
been a sufficiently bare place. He, however, took Lough 
Yoan into the demesne, and planted extensively and with 
great taste about it, mainly in Drumcrin and Derryvore. 
In 1813 the new Dublin road was made, and at this time 
Lord Belmore took back a toties quoties lease of Slee Hill, 
beyond the new road,and parts of Slee,Killyhevlin, andGort- 
gonnel between the new and old roads, from his own tenant, 
Mr. Dane, giving him a similar lease of part of Derryvore, 
in part exchange. (This was all Bishop's lease). This he 
planted, and although pecuniarily he made a very bad 
bargain, still the plantations form a very essential feature 
of the demesne, backed as they are by Cuilcagh and the 
mountains near Florence Court. 

About 1812 Lord Belmore bought the house at the top of 
Hamilton Place in London, which was the predecessor of 
No. 6. The price given was large, but it was sold about 
sixteen years later at a considerable profit. 

About 1817 and the following years accompanied by Lady 
Belmore and his sons, Lord Belmore made a lengthened 
tour in the Mediterranean in a yacht, called the Osprey, a 
brig, which had been a prize during the war, and which was 
sold when he had done with it, to the King of Naples. 
They also went up the Nile at the time when Belzoni was 
exploring, and afterwards crossed the short desert (dressed 
in Eastern costume), to Jerusalem and the Holy Land. 
Lady Hester Stanhope was then in Syria. I have a few, 
not very interesting letters of hers addressed to my grand- 
father. I have also a MS. book of travels in the East, by 
Commander the Hon. C. L. Irby, and Commander Mangles, 
presented to Lord Belmore by the latter. Whilst in the 
East my grandfather made a considerable collection of anti- 
quities,most of which, I believe, were subsequently purchased 
for the British Museum — some, I think, he presented to it. 

During his absence from home the existing stables and 
farm offices at Castlecoole were built ; those belonging to or 
near the old house, having up to that time been made use 
of. Mr. Bichard Morrison was the architect. The stables 
are unnecessarily large, and until I made some alterations 
the buildings were never fully utilized. The farm buildings, 
though not compact, 1 have had to add to. 



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After his return to England, his sons went to Christ 
Church, Oxford ; my father, however, left without taking his 
degree, at the end of 1822, in order to contest Fermanagh 
with Sir Henry Brooke, upon a vacancy caused by Sir Lowry 
Cole's acceptance of the Government of the Mauritius. 

When the election began my father it is said was not of age, 
but the poll lasted so long that this defect was cured, before his 
opponent retired from the contest as hopeless. The election 
cost my grandfather, I have heard, about £8,000. The 
return was dated March 8th, 1823. On the 5th February, 
1829, Lord Corry seconded the address in reply to the King's 
Speech. He said that he was willing to go into an investi- 
gation of the Catholic claims, to see whether something 
could not be done to satisfy the views and feelings of both 
parties. But he would not pledge himself to any measure 
that might be brought forward. 

In the debate on the (5th March, on the motion for going 
into committee on the bill for the removal of Roman Catholic 
disabilities, he briefly stated that he could not support the 
bill. He retired from Parliament at the dissolution of the 
23rd April, 1831. 

On the 1st May, 1819, Lord Belmore was elected a Repre- 
sentee Peer of Ireland. 

On Nov. 19th, 1828, he was appointed Governor of Jamaica, 
in succession to the Duke of Manchester. He sailed with Lady 
Belmore in H.M.S. Herald (afterwards surveying ship in 
Australia) in January, 1829. He sold his London house 
for which (probably more or less furnished) he obtained, 
I have heard, £30,000; and also the advowson of Clogherny 
to Trinity College, for £14,000. 

In 1832, not being able to agree on a matter of adminis- 
trative policy with Lord Goderich, the Secretary of State, 
he was recalled. He has left at Castlecoole a copy of a long 
despatch justifying his own action. (No. 204, 30th April, 
1832.) He was succeeded by the Earl of Mulgrave, after- 
wards Marquis of Normanby. 

In May, 1834, my father was married. On this occasion, 
the Manor of Finagh,* with Beagh, Letfern, and Legacorry, 
and the head rent of Moylagh, together with the Manor of 
Coole, were placed in settlement. 

In 1839, Lord Belmore sold his Longford estate, which it 
may be remembered cost within 150 years, less than £1,000, 
together with the Clabby estate, and the lands so often 
recited in the barony of Magherastephana, to the Rev. J. 

* Except Killadroy, and the old " excepted lands." 




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G. Porter, of Belleisle, and Kilskeery (son of Bishop Porter,* 
of Clogher), for I have heard £136,000, (but this I cannot 
verify), the united rentals being then about £4,000 a year. 
They are probably a good deal more now, but the estates 
are divided between members of Mr. Porter's family. 
About the same time Lord Belmore was enabled under the 
provisions of a modern Act of Parliament, to convert his 
bishop's leases, into fee farm grants, compounding (together 
with his under tenants who held toties quoties leases) 
for the fines. The rent reserved, which had been £380 
Irish, plus agents' fees, when Mr. Armar bought out Sir 
Ralph Gore, in 1753, had by this time risen to about 
£ 1 ,275 — British currency. 

In the summer of 1839, Lord Belmore had a paralytic 
seizure whilst sitting at dinner at Castlecoole. He never 
made more than a partial recovery, and having spent some 
time in 1840, at Cowes, he died at Leamington, on April 
18th, 1841. He was buried at Caledon. The late Lord 
Castlemaine succeeded him as a Representative Peer. Lord 
Belmore continued to improve Castlecoole to the last. Bonny - 
brooke Wood was planted about the time of his death. He 
made a grant of the site of Edenderry church, in the town- 
land of Aghagallon, co. Tyrone, and diocese of Deny, on 1st 
July, 1839. This parish was formed out of parts of Drum- 
ragh and Cappagh. 



CHAPTER XX. 

ARMAR, THIRD EARL OF BELMORE, 1841-5, 

AXD THE SUBSEQUENT HISTORY OF THE ESTATES. 

Lord Belmore's Improvements at Castlecoole — His Death — Encum- 
bered Estates Court Sales — Sale of Corballintacken owing to a supposed 
mistake — Re-adjustment of Rentals on the Estates in my Possession — 
Death of Juliana, Countess of Belmore — and of Louisa, Countess of 
Sandwich — Death of the Rt. Hon. Henry Cony. 

The greater part of what I have to relate about my 
father, I have already said in the last chapter. He was in 
his fortieth year, when his father died, in April, 1841, and 
he did not survive to complete his forty-fourth year. The 
old dowager, Mary Anne Countess of Belmore, his grand- 
father's widow, died later in the same year, when the house 
at Bath reverted to him, and was sold. 

* John Porter, a native of England, having been chaplain to the Archbishop of 
Canterbury and to Earl Camden, was appointed Bishop of Killala and Achonrv in 
1795, and was Bishop of Clogher from 1798 to 1819. He materially increased 
the rental of the See estate. 



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He went to reside at Castlecoole, in October, 1841, and he 
continued to make it his principal residence; going to 
Cowes (as he had regularly done for several summers before 
he succeeded his father), in 1842 and 1843, for the summer. 
He was very fond of yachting, although he did not own a 
yacht. He was also a fisherman. In this day, his own 
lake in the demense (Lough Coole) was an excellent pike 
and perch lake ; and occasionally he used to go a distance 
for salmon fishing. Although he did not hunt, he rode 
regularly ; he had, for a good many years, a very handsome 
chesnut horse, called Fairstar. 

In the demesne, he planted a wood, now known as Kil- 
lenure plantation ; and he made a walk (since converted into 
a drive), out of part of the old Dublin approach to the house, 
and the old public road of 1783, passing by Lough Yoan. 

In 1844, he went to Germany for the gout. The 
following summer, soon after the birth of his youngest son, 
now Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Corry, late m.p. for Tyrone, 
he went to England for a short time. On the 10th Sep- 
tember, he took my brother Captain A. L. Corry, R.N., and 
myself, to Mrs. Peile's school, at Hatfield ; we saw him 
then for the last time. He died, after a short illness, 
of gout, on the 17th December, 1845, wanting a week to 
complete his forty-fourth year. 

It had been arranged that he should have been the next 
Representative Peer. The late Lord Desart was elected on 
the 11th December, 1846, to the vacancy that my father 
would have filled, in the Marquis of Thomond's place. 

The year after my father's death, came the failure of the 
potato crop; followed by the famine in 1847. The 
Encumbered Estates Act was passed in 1849, and my 
trustees found it necessary to take advantage of it. Between 
family charges, and the incumbrances mainly created by my 
Grandfather, still remaining after his own extensive sales 
to Mr. Porter, what was known as the unsettled estates 
were incumbered up to their full value. The Fermanagh 
Church land estate (except Standingstone), and the fee- 
simple lands, which were not included in Manorcoole, such 
as Largy, Glasdrummond, Toppid Mountain, Tyralton, 
Modena* Drumderg, and Inisleague Island, were sold in 
1851.J Standingstone (part of Gortgonnel) had been erro- 
neously mapped as part of Castlecoole, by the Ordnance 

* The lands that had been acquired from Matthew Anketell, were Derrynane, 
Corhelly, Tullyoghnevin, Goreagh, and Drumdearge, Modena (Topp or) Topped 
Mountain, and Tertallen. The latter probably was the modern Tyralton, 

f See App. X. 



surveyors. It was sold privately to my mother in 1853 ; of 
course at a large price. Some portions of the Church 
lands of Killenure, owing to errors in the Ordnance map, 
were not sold at all, whilst parts of Kedagh (now included 
in Castlecoole) and Carrowmacmea, were sold as part of 
Gortgonnel, and as Clocktate, respectively. Gortgonnel 
is a Church land, but Clocktate never was. The purchasers 
of course got an indefeasible title, as errors made by the 
Court cannot be remedied after the conveyance is once signed. 
But the mistakes were none the less a cause of trouble and 
expense, long afterwards in making future arrangements 
with members of the family in connexion with my father's 
will. To save my successors from similar difficulty, I think 
it desirable that they should have an authentic record of 
past dealings with the estates, such as this work aims at 
being. The sales in Tyrone took place in 1852 and 1853. 
The lists of lands then sold are long, and will be found in 
Appendix Y. The gross rental sold in Tyrone was I 
believe about £8,000 a year, and some of the lands being 
sold subject to considerable annuities, the whole on the 
average realized between nine teen and twenty years' pur- 
chase. The annuities by the time they had all fallen in, 
must have swollen the amount paid first and last by pur- 
chasers, to twenty-three years' purchase. 

The number of years' purchase that the different lots of 
the Fermanagh estate sold for, varied considerably. A gross 
rental of £6,000 a year or thereabouts was sold, but from 
this nearly £1,300 a year had to be deducted for the head 
rent of the Bishop's lands. 

The result was that when I came of age the estate was 
reduced in Fermanagh to the Manor of Coole,* and the 
part of the demesne included in the See lease, before 
referred to.t But those Church lands which were actually 
in, or were close to the demesne, had been purchased by 
members of the family, so that I was enabled to re-pur- 
chase them on fair terms. Three of the more distant Church 
townlands I also repurchased, and held for a time. They 
were Cavanacross, Mullinaskea and Feddans. In 1861, I 
was able to gain entire repossession of the demesne, by 
taking a fee-farm grant of part of Bally luc is from the late 
Mr. Collum, in exchange for a similar grant of his family's 
old farm (with re-adjusted boundaries), in Tullyharney. 

In Tyrone I retained after the sales, the townlands of 
Beagh, Letfern, and Legacorry, and the head rent of Moy- 

* Vide appendix R. 

t Excepting the small portions sold in error. 






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lagh, and the Manor of Finagh lands which had been in 
Robert Lowry the younger's marriage settlement, except 
Corballytacken. This and the ancient Achorrow of the 
map of 1609, I believe to have been intended to be repre- 
sented in the Ordnance map of 1834, as Curr. In pre- 
paring the sale rental it does not seem to have occurred to 
any one that Corballytacken, in the old proportion of 
Finagh, was identical with the Curr of the Ordnance map 
of 1834, in the old proportion of Ballintacken. 

Curr was consequently sold in two lots for about £8,000. 
Lord Lifford purchased one of them. Killadroy, which was 
also sold, was omitted from Robert Lowry 's settlement of 
1726, notwithstanding its being in Finagh. 

I still possess in Monaghan the head rent of what in 
1739 was known as Colonel Murray's Park, now called 
Swan Park. I am told that a bank in the town of Mon- 
aghan now stands upon it. 

After I came of age in 1856, I re-adjusted the rental of 
the Tyrone estate, as far as unleased lands were concerned. 
The Master of the Rolls* had on a petition from the " Beragh 
Club," after the famine, made certain reductions, which made 
the rental uneven as between tenant and tenant. These as 
regards leases were set aside. Of unleased lands new lettings 
were made. 

On both estates, between 1856 and 1862, a good deal of 
squaring and consolidation of farms, and arterial drainage was 
effected. Comparatively few alterations have been made in 
Tyrone since. When leases have fallen in on both proper- 
ties, the rents have generally been re-adjusted. 

In my marriage settlement of 21st August, 1861, I 
omitted Beagh, Letfern, and Legacorry, from the entail on 
the one hand ; on the other hand I was able to include the 
Fermanagh Church lands, the leases having been converted 
into perpetuities. Many of my tenants in the villages of 
Beragh and Sixmilecross, in Tyrone, have exercised their 
right of late years, of converting their leases, renewable for 
ever, into fee-farm grants, commuting future fines into small 
additions to the rents. 

In Appendix Z, I give a list with approximate dates of 
different buildings, roads, and other improvements on the 
estates. 

I have purposely only given a mere outline of estate history 
in the present century. In the following chapter I shall 
endeavour briefly to sum up a few of the principal points, of 
what has gone before, and make a few general observations on 

• The Right Hon. W. Cusack Smith, 



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them. It remains only to say here, that my grandmother, 
Juliana, Countess of Belmore, died on the 22nd July, 1861, 
aged 77; Louisa, Countess of Sandwich, my great aunt 
(who married July 9th, 1804), died on the 19th April, 
1862, the following year, aged 81. She had, in her old 
age, a vivid recollection of incidents that occurred in her 
youth. She remembered the scene in the Irish House 
of Commons, to which she accompanied her aunt, Lady 
Castlereagh, on the night of the report of the Union Bill. 
She recollected going to the then locally fashionable spa, at 
Swanlingbarr, with her father ; and she also remembered 
the Rebellion of 1798, when she used to go to look for rebels 
in the dark, and " never saw any one worse than herself," 
as she expressed it. The gardener, notwithstanding, was 
tried for drilling rebels within a quarter of a mile of Castle- 
coole, on a hill still known as "Croker's Hill." It is a 
tradition, that the jury having disagreed, the prisoner and 
jury were, in the old fashion, taken in carts to the border 
of the county, when the judges left, and were there dis- 
charged. 

My uncle, the Right Hon. Henry Corry, died on the 3rd 
March, 1873, wanting but three days to complete his 
seventieth year. He had represented Tyrone for upwards 
of forty-seven years and a half. 



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CHAPTER XXI. 

CONCLUDING REMARKS. 

Rules of the Plantation — Rise in the value of land caused mainly by fall 
in the value of money — Social habits of the seventeenth century — 
Estate rules — Fee-farms and long leases — Waste lands. 

There are some points contained in the foregoing narrative, 
which seem to call for a few general remarks — The first is 
as regards the Plantation of Ulster. 

The general rules with regard to the Plantation, will 
be found in Harris's Hibernica — the work which contains 
Pynnar's Survey. Those only which relate to the Scotch 
and English settlers, and which will be found on pages 
125-7, concern my two manors. These general rules were 
fifteen in number, and may be shortly stated as follows : — 

1. His Majesty was pleased to grant estates in fee-farm 
to the undertakers, and to their heirs. 

2. The quit rent to be paid for every proportion of 1,000 
acres was £5 6s. Hd. English money, and so on rateably for 
every larger proportion ; which would be at the rate of 
(about) 6s. 8d for every three score acres. But no under- 
takers were to be required to pay rent for the first two 
years, except natives, who would be at no expense for 
transportation. 

3. Proportions of 2,000 acres, were to be held by Knight's 
service in capite; of 1,500 acres by Knight's service as of 
Dublin Castle; and of 1,000 acres, in common soccage. 
There was to be no wardship on the first two descents of 
the land. 

4. Undertakers with 2,000 acres, were to be bound to 
build a castle, with a strong court or bawne. Those with 
1,500 acres, to build a stone or brick house with a bawne, 
and those with 1,000 acres, were to make a strong court or 
bawne. The undertakers were to draw their tenants, to 
build houses near their own, for mutual defence or strength. 
They were to have timber assigned to them without pay- 
ment out of His Majesty's woods, for the next two years, 
after obtaining their patents ; meanwhile there was to be a 
prohibition against destroying or falling the woods for any 
cause. 

5. The undertakers, their heirs and assigns, were to have 

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ready at all times a convenient store of arms, wherewith 
they might furnish a competent number of men for defence, 
which might be viewed and mustered every half year, after 
the manner of England. 

6. They were to take the oath of supremacy, either in the 
Chancery of England or Ireland, or before the Commissioners 
to be appointed for establishing the Plantation, and to 
conform in religion according to His Majesty's laws. 

7. They were not to alien or demise their lands to meer 
Irish, or to such as would not take the oath of supremacy. 

8. Each undertaker was within two years to plant a 
competent number of English or Scotch tenants upon his 
proportion, in such manner as the Commissioners should 
prescribe. 

9. Each undertaker was to reside for the first five years, 
after obtaining his patent, upon his proportion, either by 
himself, or his deputy, unless licence of dispensation of 
residence was granted to him by the Lord Deputy and 
Council of Ireland. 

10. Undertakers were not to alien their proportions 
during the first five years, but in this manner, viz., one- 
third part in fee farm, another third for forty years or 
under ; reserving to themselves the other third part without 
alienation during the said five years. After five years, they 
might alien to all persons, except meer Irish, or such as 
would not take the oath. 

11. Undertakers, might erect manors, and hold courts 
Baron twice a year, to create tenures to hold of themselves 
upon alienation of any part of their portions not exceeding 
a moiety thereof. 

12. They were not to demise any part of their lands at 
will only, but were to make certain estates for years, for 
life, in taile, or in fee-simple. 

13. No uncertain rent was to be reserved by the under- 
takers, but the same was to be expressly set down, without 
reference to the Custom of the Country ; and a proviso was 
to be inserted in the letters patent, against Cuttings, 
Cosheries, and other Irish exactions upon their tenants. 

14. Power was to be given to the undertakers, to trans- 
port during the next seven years after the date of their 
letters patent, commodities out of the country, without 
paying any customs, duties or other impositions. 

15. Power was also to be given to them during the like 
period, to import into Ireland, out of Great Britain, free of 
customs duties, Victuals, Utensils for their households, 
or Materials and Tools for building and husbandry, and 



2§1 

Cattle to stock and manure the lands aforesaid. This was 
not to extend to commodities by way of merchandize. 

Such were the general rules, and it will be seen by 
referring to Captain Atkinson's patent (page 69), that most 
of them were incorporated into the patent. 

But I can give no explanation as to why the rent charged 
for his proportion of 1,000 acres was £8 a year, in place of 
£5 6s. 8cl. It is not an explanation that the 1,000 acres were 
exceeded, because in making the surveys in the escheated 
counties, it appears that only " profitable acres " were 
taken account of, and that woods and bogs were thrown in. 

The Manor of Coole was to be held in common soccage. 
That of Finagh, which was according to Pynnar, one of 
3,000 acres, should have been held by knight's service in 
capite. But it was re-granted to Sir Piers Crosbye in free 
and common soccage (App. F.) This manor it appears was 
twice forfeited for non compliance with the rules. It will 
be seen by reference to App. D, that the tenants could not 
" have their leases made good unto them," and that the 
lands were in great measure in 1619 inhabited by Irish.* 
There was also no bawne nor castle nor freeholders. 

In Manor Atkinson, on the other hand, a bawne was built, 
and it would appear by the rental attached to the con- 
veyance to Arthur Champion, that leases had been given. 
What the defects in title therefore were, is not very apparent. 
Leases were I believe very commonly given on both estates 
down to a recent period. Even now about half of my Fer- 
managh rental is paid by leaseholders ; and the disinclination 
of tenants to take out leases now, is to be accounted for, by 
the supposed superior position of yearly tenants under the 
present land law. 

The rise in the value of money is also a matter requiring 
notice. It is nowadays claimed for the tenants, that the 
increased value of the soil over what it was a century ago 
is due to their labour. Now, as a matter of fact, it would 
be difficult to show any increased value due to tenants' 
labour even so recently as the end of the last century ; and, 
even as regards landlords' improvements, it will have been 
observed in Mr. Armar's case that many of them have 
become obsolete ; others, such as main drainage by means of 
straightening watercourses, although good as far as they went, 
were insufficient ; whilst the old mills at Castlecoole must, 
at every wet season, have converted some of the best land 
for dairy purposes in Coneyburrow bottoms, into a 
temporary lake. I admit that during the present century 

* Vide also App. L. 



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some tenants, and of late years, since the famine of 1846, 
many tenants have made valuable improvements. But I 
cannot admit that the general rise in the fair letting value 
of land is due to anything else than the fall in the value 
of money as regards commodities. I have not a great deal 
of evidence amongst these papers to adduce as to the 
actual value of commodities and labour in former times ; 
still I may point to the list of prices in 1719 on page 172 ; 
to Robert Grieves' receipt, dated 1726, on page 176; to an 
account with F. Doorass, in 1736, on page 195, and to the 
accounts in connexion with building the church, between 
1736 and 1741, in Appendix T. How little even a land- 
lord's land in Fermanagh produced in 1735 may be seen on 
page 195. Even at a period since the famine it was, I have 
been told, a not unfrequent custom in Tyrone for a tenant 
to take three crops of oats out of the land, and then let it 
" come to " — that is, run back into natural grass and weeds. 
Now, however, on many farms I believe grass seeds are 
sown, when land is laid down. 

The form in which the rentals were kept during my 
grandfather and father's, and the early part of my own time, 
was such, that it is not easy to use them for purposes of 
comparing the values of particular townlands, (as they 
formed one very long account treating each particular 
estate as a unit). This system of course involves some 
trouble, in picking out the value of each townland. But I 
am inclined to doubt if rents on my Tyrone property at 
least have ever, as a rule, exceeded what they were at the 
end of the war in 1815 ; after which there was a very heavy 
reduction. Leases in Tyrone granted about that time are 
about up to the present letting value of the land. 

But, although I cannot give details as to value of com- 
modities, something may be learned from the jointures 
and portions provided for younger children. In the settle- 
ment of 1679, a jointure not exceeding one-third of the 
value of the land settled was provided for. This probably 
was based on the rule of " thirds," for a widow. 

When James Corry was going to marry Miss Mervyn, 
£90 a year was the jointure named in the unexecuted settle- 
ment. The settlement of 1679, also provided £1,000 for 
younger children's portions. 

In John Corry 's settlement of 1701, in Robert Lowry'fl 
settlement of 1726, and in Galbraith Lowry's settlement of 
1733, £200 a year jointure, and £2,000 for younger children's 
portions, were the sums named; whilst in the Misses 
Auchinlech's settlements, whose husbands were not great 



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lauded proprietors, such jointures as £21, £30, £32, and 
£40 a year, were considered sufficient under certain con- 
tingencies. In 1693, James Corry in his petition for com- 
pensation for his losses during the wars, put his annual 
income at £1,000 a year. In the account stated between 
Leslie Corry and Margetson Armar in 1733, the highest 
year's rental slightly exceeded £1,400 a year. This was 
for the estates in Longford, Monaghan, and Fermanagh, 
and the Antrim lease. When Leslie Corry died in 1741, 
the Longford estate which had been purchased at the end 
of the preceding century for £935, was worth about £400 
a year. When Sarah Corry had it in 1777, it was worth 
£917 a year. She was by this time a widow, and her hus- 
band had increased her jointure to £500 a year, by leaving 
her an annuity of £300 more, which she enjoyed in addi- 
tion to her Longford property, and that in the barony of 
Magherastephana. Galbraith Lowry Corry had also in- 
creased his daughters' fortunes from the £2,000 settled on 
younger children in 1733, by giving the elder £10,000, and 
leaving the younger £4,000, and an annuity of £150 till 
her marriage, and after her mother's death it was to be 
increased by £200 a year in addition. 

Mr. Armar in his will adhered to the old scale, giving 
power to settle a jointure of £200 a year, and portions for 
younger children, up to £2,000. His nephew Armar Lowry 
Corry, however, when he married Lady Henrietta Hobart, 
had become a great landed proprietor, and she had besides 
a considerable fortune (£20,000, British) of her own, which 
apparently was paid over to him. Consequently the settle- 
ment upon her was £2,000 a year, and £20,000 upon her 
daughters or younger children. Part of the real estate 
would have gone to an elder son had she had one. When 
he married for the third time, £1,000 a year was settled 
on Miss Caldwell. When my grandfather married in 1800, 
£1,000 a year also was the jointure settled ; this, however, 
was more than doubled by his will. All these settlements 
in the last century were made in Irish currency, which was 
at the rate of Is. Irish to lid. British. 

It may naturally occur to some persons to ask, what light 
does this narrative throw on the social habits of the different 
periods ? In the seventeenth century, the undertakers 
held their lands and possessions at the peril of their lives. 
In the original patent of Coole, we find a condition (in 
accordance with the rules of the Plantation), that the 
Patentee was to draw his (English or Scotch), tenants to 
build close to his own house— accordingly we find two 



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fresholders mentioned in 1619. In 1689, there is mention 
of a town of Oastlecoole which was burnt. This probably 
meant a few houses near the mills — perhaps the Thomas - 
town house may now be on the site of the town. 

The habits of the people were not apparently very 
peaceable. 

In 1688, Captain Corry raised 100 foot and CO horse- 
men, for* the defence of Castlecoole, which were ordered 
into the town, and the foot may perhaps have been in- 
corporated into the regiment which became the 27th 
Inniskillings. 

After the war, when the country began to be more settled, 
the deer park was made, and what was then no doubt con- 
sidered a large house, built at Castlecoole. The owners of 
the property evidently began to make improvements, and 
to feel more secure in their possessions than formerly. 

The period, when riotous living most prevailed amongst 
the gentry, was that between 1730 and 1800. But I find 
no trace of it at Castlecoole. Mr. Armar evidently lived 
quietly and prudently; and my great grandfather, the first 
Lord Belmore, although he laid the foundation of the in- 
cumbrances, which have reduced the property from one of 
the largest in Ireland, to one under 20,000 statute acres, 
did so mainly by his building opeiations. In his latter 
days he was considerably embarrassed ; but his building 
expences, added to the mortgage of £8,000 left by Mr. 
Armar and his father, which I suppose to have been on 
account of the purchase of the Church lands, his cousin 
Lady Sarah Cole's fortune of £10.000, the sum of £31,000 
he agreed to pay Mrs. Armar for the Church lands, and a few 
charges of his own, would far more than have accounted for the 
amount of incumbrance he left on the estate ; not including 
family charges, and some under his will which came into 
effect at his death. 

I conclude, therefore, that no great extravagance of 
living was indulged in at Aghenis or at Castlecoole during 
the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The owners 
seem to have lived on friendly terms with their tenants, 
and it would appear from the grants made in the last 
century by the Vestry of Termonmaguirk (App. M.) for 
building a Presbyterian meeting-house, and repairing one, 
and erecting another Roman Catholic chapel, that the 
different religious denominations in Tyrone, at any rate, 
were on friendly terms. 

It was not the custom in that part of the country to 
spend much money on improving tenants' farms. Old 



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vouchers show a few small allowances in Tyrone for im- 
provements such as fencing or lime. The immediate 
tenants on that estate seem to have held generally by lease, 
and to have been bound to certain improvements, but not 
to good husbandry. If subletting was not actually allowed, 
it must have been largely winked at, as the number of 
farms now on the Tyrone estate greatly exceeds the 
number in the rentals of 1777 and the following years. 
These sub-tenancies have now become principal tenancies. 
The sale of a tenant's interest was also permitted in the 
general way. I cannot say what the exact conditions were 
before the famine — probably they depended on the agent's 
pleasure.* 

After I attained my majority there was supposed to be a 
limit as to price in Tyrone, and that tenant-right was not to 
exceed £8 a statute acre. But, after 1862, on the occasion of 
a change of agency, when Mr. Brush succeeded Mr. Dane, I 
abandoned the limit as being impossible to enforce in 
practice, whilst the passing of tenants' money through the 
agent's office rendered the landlord open to certain incon- 
venient liabilities. 

Since that time I have merely retained a right to approve 
of the purchaser. This, of course, indirectly has, in some 
cases, slightly limited the amount of the purchase money, as 
the highest bidder has not always been approved of, prefer- 
ence usually being given to a neighbour. Sales by auction 
have not been sanctioned, except in one or two special cases. 
The actual number of sales moreover has not been consider- 
able. 

This system has worked so well, that there has never 
been a land claim under the Land Act of 1870, brought 
against me, on either estate. 

What may be the results of the Bill now passing through 
Parliament, it would be idle to prophecy. In my own case, 
1 do not anticipate that it will make much difference. The 
Act of 3 870 would have created great difficulties in the way 
of consolidating and squaring farms ; which in many cases 
was essential to arterial drainage and good husbandry. 
That had been largely done, on both the Castlecoole and 
Finagh estates, some years before 1870. 

* The successive Tyrone agents were — the Messrs. Galbraith, Perry, Spiller, 
Major Bloomfield (who only died last December 31st, aged 90), Mr. D. Auchinlech, 
Mr. Paul Dane, and Mr. Brush. In Fermanagh they were — Colonel Gordon, Mr. 
Richard Dane, Mr. Paul Dane, and Mr. J. J. Benison. Agents on both estates 
appear to have been first appointed by my great grandfather. For about eighteen 
years Mr. Paul Dane held both agencies jointly. 



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I may, however, be permitted to doubt, whether the new 
principles of land tenure, about to be introduced, will in the 
long run prove more conducive to agricultural progress, 
than those founded on the old rules of the Plantation of 
Ulster, which had been in operation for some 250 years. 
At the same time I look to the purchase clauses of the 
Bill (although they may not be uniformly successful), to 
lead to the correction in time of the difficulties which may 
arise under the other clauses. I have long advocated 
the practice of giving fee farm grants on fines, or long but 
terminable leases, being made more easy ; and to a small 
extent I have tried the experiment, and have no reason to 
be dissatisfied with its success. 

As regards the reclamation of waste lands or bogs, I am 
not sanguine. I know nothing personally of slob lands ; 
but of that kind of waste which largely exists in Tyrone, I 
feel sure that profitable reclamation must be a slow process. 



THE END. 



APPENDIX. 



APPENDIX A. 

Before the Plantation the barony of Omagh was divided, as 
represented in the map of 1609, into the following portions : — 

1. Vergurk, i.e., TerinonMacGuirk. 

2. Finagh (or Fivagh or the Fews, see Joyce, vol. i., p. 441). 

3. Ballintacken (probably, The town of the Field-fares). 
4 Fentongh (see Joyce, vol. i., p. 41). 

5» Slught Art (i.e., the dependents of Art O'Neill). 

6 Lough Muky (i.e., the pig's lake). 

7* Brade (i.e., a narrow pass — a gorge). 

8. Ovaral? 

9. Camoun (i.e., crooked river). 

At the Plantation it was divided into the following propor- 
tions : — 

1. Church lands of Terinonmaguirk unaltered. 

2. The great proportion of Finagh (alias the two Fews) 

coincided with the old district of Finagh. 

3. The small proportion of Rarone, containing part of 

Ballintacken and part of Camoun. 

4. The small proportion of Edergoole, containing the re- 

mainder of Ballintacken and part of Lough Muky. 

5. The great proportion of Fintonagh, containing Fen- 

tonagh, the remainder of Lough Muky and part of 
Slught Art. 

6. The great proportion of rade, containing Brade, part 

of Ovaral and part of Slught Art. 

7. 8, and 9. The remainder of Slught Art was divided into 

the small proportion of Garvetagh, Claraghmore, and 
Cornabracken. 

10. The remainder of Camoun, with the decayed castle of 

Omagh, was granted to John Leigh, esq., constable 
of the Fort of Omagh. — 8th James I. 



APPENDIX B. 

12th March, 8th Jas. I. — Grant from the king to George Tuchet, 
Lord Audley, and Elizabeth his wife : Armagh co., in Orior barony, 
total 2,000a. ; rent £16 Engl. Tyrone co., in Omagh bar., Deri- 
eragh, Namoda, Eskermore, Radaragan, Barhagh, Cooleskera, 
Derribroghes, Vauchran, Anosina, Ardlochra, Derriowire, Der- 
riowran, Clenure, Kailchome, Dromgane, Ballyculla, Aghnagarty, 
Ballihalligan, Ballykeile. Tolloneale, Ramacrame, Aurattagh, 

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Dromakelline, Bally-Intrim, Cloghom, Taghanaglea, Cavan- 
redagh, Glan-inny, Teneregeigh, Drumlasker, Ballinchorig, Agha- 
lane, all 1 balliboe each ; Ballimgellin, |- bal. ; Carrowgowlan § 
ball.; total, 2,000a.; rent, £10 13s. 4d. The advowson and 
patronage of TermoDmaguoirk rectory and vicarage, being called 
the great proportion of Fynagh, — the small proportion of Ear one, 
viz., the lands of Dougarie, Totekeile, Nasircassa, each 1 bal.; 
Rarone 1^ bal.; Lisarrae, Achorrow, each 1 bal. ; Killdorow, 1^ 
bal. ; Rascany, Derrenchorrowhy, Nahany, Tirwony, Ramocone, 
Lislea, Cornacamowne, Branar, each 1 bal. ; § of the bal. of Racas- 
san next Branar; total 1,000a., rent £5 6s. 8d. To hold to them 
and the heirs of their bodies, remainder to his heirs. The lands 
in Armagh co. are created the manor of Stawbridge, with 600a. 
in demesne ; the lands in Tyrone co. are created the manor of 
Hely, with 900a. in demesne. Power to grant tenure, and to hold 
courts baron. — Calendar of Patent Rolls. 



APPENDIX C. 

17th Oct., 13th Jas. I. (1615). — King's letter for a commission 
to be issued to inquire what denomination of land in Omagh 
barony, in Tyrone county, of those allotted to Lord Aucllev, 
Sir Mervyn Tutchett, Sir F. Tutchett, Sir J. Davis, and Edward 
Blunt, esq., are misnamed or omitted in the letters patent by 
which the same are granted to them, and to grant them all such 
denominations as shall be found to lie within their several propor- 
tions, and in the mean time they are to be continued in posses- 
sion of the lands they at present hold ; p. 293. 

6th Sept., 14th Jas. I. (1616).— Grant to George Tutchet, 
Lord Audeley, of Heleigh Castle, in Stafford county, and his heirs 
male, of the title and dignity of Baron of Audelay, of Orier in 
Armagh county, and Earl of Castlehaven, in Cork county, with 
an annual fee of <£20 sterling, to him, and his heirs male, in 
consideration of his military services in the Netherlands, France, 
and Ireland, and more particularly at the siege of Kinsale, where 
he was severely wounded; p. 304. — Calendar of Patent Rolls. 

APPENDIX D. 

In the Survey of Ulster, " made at several times, and in 
several places, between the 1st day of December, 1618, 
and the 28th day of March, 1619, by me, Nicholas Pynnar, 
Esq., and others, by virtue of His Majesty's Commission 
under the Great Seal of Ireland to me and others directed, 
dated 28th day of November, 1618," it is stated with regard 
to the Manor of Finagh as follows : — 

"The Precinct of the Omy, appointed to English Undertakers." 
" cxxxii. — 3,000 acres. 
" Tins is the Countess her jointure. 

" The Earl of Castlehaven hath 3,000 acres, called Faugh and 
Rarone." 



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" Upon this there is no building at all, either of Bawne or 
Castle, neither Freeholders. 

" I find planted upon this land some few English families, but 
they have no estates ; for since the old Earl died the tenants (as 
they tell me) cannot have their leases made good unto them, unless 
they will give treble the rent which they paid ; and yet they must 
have but half the land which they enjoyed in the late Earl's time. 

a All these tenants do dwell 
disperseclly upon their own land, 
and cannot dwell together in a 
village, because they are bound 
everyone to dwell upon his own 
land, which, if they do not, the 
lease is void. These eleven ten- 
ants can make no more men, and 
all the rest of the land is in- 
habited with Irish." 



Lessees for years — 8; viz. : — 

1 having 120 acres. 

6 having 60 acres le piece. 



1 having 30 acres. 
Cottagers, three. 



" Each of these have a small 
piece of land to keep their cows. 



The Earl had also 2,000 acres more, called Brede, and 
another 2,000 acres, called Fentonagh. Upon these there 
was nothing built. He had also — 

" cxxxv. — 2,000 acres. 

" The Earle hath more 2,000 acres, called Edergoole and Car- 
neurachan. Upon this there was a large house begun, but now it 
is pulled down, and made but half so great ; being three stories 
high, and finished. The Agent for the Earl shewed me the 
rent roll of all the tenants that are on these three proportions ; 
but their estates are so weak and uncertain that they are all 
leaving the land. These were in number sixty-four ; and each of 
these hold sixty acres, which they term a townland. The rest of 
the land is let to 20 Irish gentlemen, as appeareth by the rent 
roll, which is contrary to the Articles of Plantation ; and these 
Irish gentlemen have under them, as I was informed by the 
tenants and gentlemen in the country, about three thousand souls 
of all sorts." 

This proportion includes the townlands of Beagh, Letfern, 
Legacorry, and Moylagh, which are in the manor of Tuchett. 

APPENDIX E. 

1 7th July, 1 7th Jas. 1.(1619) . — King's letter, directing surrender 
and regrant upon fine to Sir Piers Crosby (cupbearer), and Lady 
EIlz., Countess Dowager of Castlehaven, his wife, of the several 
portions of land, containing 3, 000 a., with all their rights, members, 
and appurtenances in the barony of Omagh, and county of Tyrone, 
which had been granted by previous letters patent, and also 
certain lands in Queen's county, to their joint heirs, and in default 
to the right heir of Sir Piers; p. 454. — Calendar of Patent Rolls. 

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APPENDIX F. 

Inquisition held at Dungannon, 1st May, 1631. 

Sir Peirce Crosby, knt., houldeth the great proportion of the 
twoe Fews and Bally taken, within the barony of Omagh and 
county of Tyrone, contayning 3,000 acres, graunted to him by 
letters patent from our Lord the King that now is, in free and 
common soccage ; and hath, since the date of said letters patents, 
and contrary to the conditions therein mentioned, demised the 
several balliboes of lands, hereunder mentioned, unto the meer 
Irish, viz. : — Donnell and Neil O'Donnelly houldeth the balliboe 
called Roscam, and doeth pleugh, pasture, and grease on the same. 
Teag O'Donnelly houldeth Berhagh, being 1 balliboe, from Francis 
Lowcas, gent., whoe houldeth the same from the said Sir 
Peirce. Patricke M'Cawell houldeth Aghnegarry, being 1 balliboe. 
Edmund Groome O'Donnelly houldeth the balliboe called Clough- 
fynn, excepting only the fourth parte thereof, and doth pasture 
same. Philemy O'Donnelly houldeth the balliboe called Cavan- 
reagh. Neel Roe O'Donnelly Tonregae, being 1 balliboe. John 
M'Nemy houldeth Eskermore, being 1 balliboe. Cormack 
O'Roerty houldeth Tatekerron, and Neill O'Teag houldeth 
Lysboy, in manner as aforesaid. Edmund Magher houldeth 
Ballinenagh, being 1 balliboe. All the said balliboes are within 
the said proportion of the Fews and Ballytacken, and are 
become forfeited to the use of our said Lord the King. — Inquisi- 
tionum, &c, Repertorium, vol. ii. (Ultonia). 



APPENDIX G. 

1st Sep., 6th Chas. I. (1630).— A grant unto Sir P. Crosby, knt., 
his heirs and assigns for ever, as an undertaker of the province of 
Ulster, of the several proportions, viz : the great proportiun of 
Ffinagh, in the barony or precincte of Omey, in county Tirone, 
containing two thousand acres, and of the small proportion of 
Rarone, in the barony and county aforesaid, containing 1,000 acres, 
rendering for the great proportion of Ffinagh yerelie, the sum of 
£21 6s. Sd. y sterling, and for the small proportion £10 13s. id. 
Grant of a court baron, demesne, and of a weekly market to be 
held at Balliculla, and two fairs yerelie to be held there alsoe — 
one on the Monday in Whitsim week, to continue for that day 
and next after, the other on the feast day of St. Michael the Arch- 
angel, if it fall not on Saturday or Sunday, to continue as before. — 
Patent Rolls. Rolls Office. 



APPENDIX H. 

4th April, 13th Car. I. — A grant upon the Commission of 
Defective Titles to Sir P. Crosbv.— Potent Rolls. Rolls Office. 




SOI 

APPENDIX I. 

County Tyrone. Parte of Termonmagarke parish, Omagh 
barony. 

C. S. [Civil Survey.] Sir William Usher,* knt, Protestant.— 
Rannally, Tolleherme, Lissragh, and Killadroy, Corballytacken, 
and Derryfevorry, Annagh, Roscamey (all these were in Rarone 
or Ballytacken), Barragh, Raclorgan, Loghlemley, Eskermore, 
Croloskeagh, Redargan, Glennewine, Ashvough, Killcame, Balle- 
hallaghan, Bally kill, Aghenegree, Dirroran, Bonnecreane, 
Dirrearra, Cowlagh, Cowagh, Aghnalee, Cloughfinn, Cavanreagh, 
Tennorgee, Drumlester, Ballytreane, Ramakan, Dromgosh, 
Brackagh (all in Fynagh). 

Mullaghmore, Sheskanore, Loghferne, Beagh, Legocarry, 
Molliagh, Tullerush (in Edergoule). 

Parte of Cappy parish, Omagh barony. 
Cornacamon, Lisscoppan, Ramakan. 

Parte of Dromragh parish, Omagh barony. 
Dougra. 

(Book of Survey and Distribution. Public Record Office.) 

APPENDIX J. 

Inquisition held at Koragh, (Sixmilecross), 5 Jan. an 15. 

Car. I. (1639). 

found that the Earl and Countess of Castlehaven were seized of, 
and demised as follows : — 



Deriereagh 1 1 May 1614 

Namoylie (for 1 year) 

Eskermore 

Lissra 

Derrewortneye 

Cavanreagh 

Cloghfin ] 1 May, 1616 

Bally halaghan (for 1 year) 

Ballekeile 

Kilcam 

Aghynachary 

Bally treyne "] 1 May, 1615 

Aghnegley (for 1 year) 

Dromlaster 

* Sir William Ussher was granted a patent of the office of Clerk of the Council, 
26th March, 1593 : he surrendered it 27th August, 1603, and got a new patent, 
31st August, jointly for himself and his son, Arthur. Sir William got another 
patent, 4th August, 1630, jointly with Sir Paul Davys. Sir William Ussher's 
will is dated 28th December, 1657; and William Davys, eldest son of Sir Paul 
Davys, got a joint patent with his father, 1st February, 1660, Sir William Ussher 
being then dead. 

Arthur Ussher, left a son, Sir William, of Castle of Grange, Wicklow, who was 
eturned m.p. for Dublin County, April 8th 1661. 



Tirlagh moder odonnelly 
(born at Ballytacken) 



Edm' Grome odonnelley 
(born at Ballytacken) 



Bryan o donnelly 
(born at Ballytacken) 



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Droingovne 

Toleneyle 

Rath mane 

Barragh 

Anosmagh 

Raddaraghan 

Clanure 

Ballyculla 

Rasscowye 

Killadroypratt 

Coolesker 
Derryoyre 
Derrybroghes 

Branar 

Ardlogher 

Derryowran 

Brackagh 

Dromonokilly 

Doogerry 

Naheny 

Tiremany 

Rahinackawe 

Carnakamone 

Sayrocleassa 

Glaninnye 
Tannerageigh J 



1 May, 1615 Neale Grome o donnelly 
(for I year) (born at Ballytacken) 

1 May, 1614 Neale o donnelley 

(for 2 years) (born at Derryowry in said co.) 

1 May, 1616 Keall M c Gillpatrick o donnelley 
(for 1 year) (born at Ballytacken) 



1 May, 1614 Hugh m'Tirlagh oge o donnelley 

(for 3 years) (born at Lislin bar. Omey) 

1 May, 1614 Bryan ni'Can 

(1 year) (born at Derryoyre aforesaid) 

1 May, 1614 Teige m'Caell 

(for 1 year) (bom at Killanele bar. Dung.) 

1 May, 1616 Pattric' m'Cawell 

(for 1 year) (born in town of Wexford) 

1 May, 1614 Art' m'Can 

(for 1 year) (born at Tirmonomongane said co.) 

1 May, 1614 Edm' m'donnell boy o donnelly 

(for 1 year) (born at Garvaghye, said co.) 

1 May, 1614 Donellboy o donnelley 

(for 1 year) (bom at Garvaghie, said co.) 

1 May, 1614 Neale Grome odonnelly 

(for 1 year) (born at sd town of Ballytacken) 

1 May, 1614 Tirlagh oge ni'Cawell 

(for 1 year) (bom at Clane in said co.) 

1 May, 1614 Hug' Boy o Neale and Neale 

(for 1 year) Garave m' Co well 

(bom at Ballentacken) 

1 May, 1614 Bryan m'Gillsennane 

(for 1 year) (bom at Saoyreclossa in said co. ) 

1 May, 1615 Bryan' rn'Pheleni o donnelly 

(for 1 year) (born at Rascowaye) 



pcell' ter' vocat' Laraghlinsey and Derryseyer nunc sunt ptes et 
pcell' vil' de Derrireagh, et jacent in baron' de Omey ; pcell ter' 
vocat' Brandrum nunc est pars et pcell' vil' de Barragh, et jacet 
in diet' Baron' ; pcell' ter' vocat' Knockeytomes nunc est pars et 
pcell' de Coolesker, et jacet in diet' Baron' ; pcell' ter' vocat' 
Tastickerrane fuit ps de Balliboe de Derrybroghes — pcell' ter' 
vocat' Lougkine et [ ] jacen' in baron' de Omagh 

nunc sunt ptes et pcell' vil' et balliboe de Banchoran ; pcell' ter' 
vocat' Derrylea and Gowlane, jacen' in diet' baron', nunc sunt et 
semp. fuer' ptes et pcell' vil' de Denygowne ; et Claghmi et 
Aghanskeagh, jacen' in diet' baron' nunc sunt ptes et pcell de 
Derrygowran. — Inquisitionum, d'e, Bepertorium, vol. ii. (Cltonia). 



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APPENDIX K. 

List of Ancient Denominations with their Modern 

Names. 

Great Proportion of Finagh. 



Names of Townlands 

as on Map of 1609, in the 

order in which they are 

given in original grant 

to Lord Audley. 



Modern Names. 



Meaning of Names. 



Dericriagh 



Namoila, 

Eskernore, 

Radaragan, 

Barhagh, 

Culeskare, 

Derybroghes, 

Banchran, 

Anosina, 
Ardlo (chra), 

Deryowre, 

Deryowran, 

Cleneure, 

Keilchome, 

Dromgane, 

B. Culla, 

Aglmagarly, 

B. Hallaghan, 

B. Keil, . 

Tallonele, 

Ramackane, 

Aurackagh, 

B. Intrem, 

Cloghoni, 

Aghanaglea, 

Cavanrenagh, 

Tenregeigh, 

Dromlasker, 

Glen Inny, 

Dromakelline, 

Ballinchorig, 
Aghalane, 
B. Negellin, 
Caroughoulan, 



Laragh, 



Clogherny (lower), 
Eskermore, 
Radergan or Redargan, 

Beragh (part of), 
Cooleskei-, . 
Tattykeeran, 

Bancran, . 
Usnagh (part of), 
Beragh and Usnagh 

(part of). 
Deroar, 
Deroran, . 
Radergan (part of), . 
Kilcam, 
Drumduff, 
Cooly, 
Aghnagar, 
Ballyhallaghan, 
Ballykeel, . 
Six Mile Cross and 

Liskineon. 
Rarnackan, 
Brackey, . 
Ballintrain, 
Cloghfin, . 
Aghnaglea, 
Cavanreagh, 
Tandragee, 
Drumlester, 

Gleneeny [in Termon 
lands]. 

Drumnakilly [in Stra- 
bane]. 

All probably in barony 
of Strabane, Agha- 
lane (parish of Cap- 
pagh) certainly is. 



Full name is Laragh Linchy, i.e., 

the site of the ruined residence of 

Linchey. 
Stony. 

Great Esker (gravel ridge). 
Dergan's Rath, or Clearing, or 

Little Red Rath. 
Abounding in birch trees ? 
Corner or Bend of Esker. 
Kieran's Tate or field, or field of 

quicken trees. 
"White tree. 

Place of Fawns, Joyce, II., 7. 
Ardlochra = Hill of rushes. 

Grey oak wood. 

Koran's oak wood. 

Glenure = Glen of yew trees. 

Crooked wood. 

Black Ridge. 

Woodland? see Joyce, I., 440. 

Ford of the Cars. 

Hallaghan's Town. 

Narrow Town. 

Tullyoneil = 0'Neirs Hill. 

M'Cann's Rath ? 

Speckled land. 

Town of the Blackthorn ? 

White Stone. 

Grazing field ? ? 

Grey Hill. 

Back to the Wind. 

Ridge of wooden vessels, Joyce, II., 

p. 186. 
Ivy Glen. 



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Small Proportion or Rarone. 



Names of Townlands 








as in Map of 1609, in 


the 








order in which they 


are 


Modern Names. 


Meaning of Names. 


given in original grants 








to Lord Audley. 










Dougerie, 




Doogary, . 




Black oak wood. 


Tatekeil, 




Tattykeel, 


. 


Xarrow Tate. 


Nasirclasa, 




Banelly, . 




Bath of the Cliff. Joyce. I., 372. 


Rarone. . 


) 


Barone, 




Bed Bath. 


Tullyheerin, 




Drv Hill. 


Lisarae, . 




Baw, 




Bath. 


Ashorow, 




Curr, 




See Jovce I , p. 362. 


Kilodrow, 




Killadroy, . 




The Druids' Wood, Joyce, II., 98. 


Baskawy, 




Boscavey, . 




See Joyce, II., p. 321. 


Deronshowwhy, 




Dervachroy, 




Bed oak wood. 


Nahany, 




Armagh. . 


. 


Marshy place. 


Tirwony, 


)' 






( Camowen = Crooked river. 


Bamacona, 


[ 


Camowen and 
Donaghanie 


part of 


< Donaghanie = Church of the 


Cornacamoun, 


) 




( horse. 


Lislea, . 




Lislea, 




Grev fort. 


Branar, . 




Part of Donaghanie, . 


? 


Bacasran, 




Becarson, . 




— 



Small Proportion of Edergoole (granted to Edward Blount, 
Esq., part in parish of Clogherny). 



Tollorosse, 
Shaskanoure, . 


Tullyrush. 
Seskinore, 


Mullach, 
Laghtfarney, . 
Legacorie, 
Behagh, . 


Moylagh, 
Letfern, 
Legacurry 
Beagh, 



? 

Gray marsh. 

Bare hills. 

Sepulchre of Alder trees. 

Hollow of the Morass ? 

Abounding in Birch trees 



The following were assigned at the Plantation as Glebes to the 
Rectory of Ternionmaguirk : — 



Clogarnagh, 



Aghnaclogh, 
Molachslinen, 



Rarone. 

Clogherney (Upper), | Stony. 

FlNAGH. 

Altdrummond, . | Field of stones. 



Mullaghslin, 



Hill of Flags (flat stones). 



APPENDIX L. 

Subsidy Roll, A.D. 1666. (Public Record Office.) 
[Hth & 15th Chas. TL, c. 7 (1662).— Enacts eight subsidies to 
be paid in four years, each to amount to £15,000 English, the first 
on or before 24th June, 1665, the second 24th December, 1665, 
&zc, to 24th December, 1668. Every person, corporation, Arc, 
worth three pounds— for every pound, over their debts (excluding 



305 

money due, apparel, except jewels, gold, silver, stone, and pearl, 
and including debts due to them), to pay 2s. 8d. — aliens and 
strangers to pay double. Persons holding in fee-simple, &c, to 
the value of 20s. yearly, to pay 4s. for every pound — aliens, &c, 
to pay double]. 



Aghagogan, . 
Aghanerny, . 



A Return of the Parish of Termont m'Goork for the Second 
Pole Money. 

Town Lands. Men and Women's Names. Qualification. 

Ballykeill and James og odonnally and his wife, farmer. 

Gortfinn. William ru'Rory and his wife, . farmer. 

Brian Ballagh o Rafferty and his servants. 

wife. 

Patrick o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Artt m'Keggny and his wife, . servants. 

Cormick o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Shane m'Keggny and his wife, . servants. 

Patrick og o Keevan and his wife, servants. 

Ginkin o Boy and his wife, . . servants. 

Neall o Keeran and his wife, . servants. 

Shan m'Gorke and his wife, . farmer, 

daniell o Conlan and his wife, . servants. 

Shan m'Gorke and his wife, . servants. 

Patrick Ballagh m'Gorke and his farmer. 

wife. 

Neall og m'Art m'Gorke and his servants. 

wife. 

Henry m'Goorke and his wife, . servants. 

Owen og m'Goork and his wife, . servants. 

Edmond m'Goork and his wife, . servants. 

Thorlagh m'Goorke and his wife, farmer. 

Thorlagh og m 'Goorke and his wife, servants. 

Pat. Boy m'Corm k and his wife, . servants. 

Shan m'Goorke and his wife, . servants. 

Artt Boy m'Conway and his wife, farmer. 

Murtogh m'Tenny* and his wife, . servants, 

donall m'A. Tenny* and his wife, servants. 

Teigg Moder m'Goorke and his farmer. 

wife. 

Pat Grom m'Goorke and his wife, servants. 

Brian m'Conway and his wife, . servants. 

Neall m'Goorke and his wife, . servants. 

Phellomy m'Can and wife, . . servants. 

James m'Goorke and wife, . . servants. 

Aughnegregan Neill moder m'Gunshanan and farmer. 

wife. 



Syllton, . 

Creggan, 
Mullan and 



mor. 



,, Mac an-t-Sinnaigh, from Mac an tinay, or, son of the Fox. 



306 



Town Lands. 



Carrickmore & 
Killine. 



Moylaghslini, 



Cloghorny 
Sieve. 



Donnochanie, 
two towns. 



Moylagh, 

Beagh, . 
Leggacurry, 



Leggifarn, 
Eskarinore, 



Ballyhalle- 

ghan. 
Ursnagh, 

Laraghlinchy, 



Men and "Women's Names Qualification. 

Pat ni'Gunshanan and his wife, . servants. 

Artt in'Crussoge and* wife, . . servants. 

Artt m'Goorke and his wife, . farmer. 

Teig m'Gildow, .... servant. 

Brian Boy m'Gildow and his wife, servants. 

James m'Gunshanan and his wife, servants. 

Collow m'Cranner and wife. . servants, 

donell m'Gilldow and his wife, . servants. 

Artt Boy m'Goork and his wife, . servants. 

James in'Rory and his wife, . servants. 

Ffooras o Tanny and wife, . . farmer. 

Pat o Donnally and his wife, . servants. 

Owen m'Gunshanan and his wife, servants. 

Phellomy dow m'Mally and his servants. 

wife. 

Neall o Tanny and his wife, . servants. 

Phellomy o Donnally and his wife, servants. 

Thorlagh m'ellCrive and his wife, farmer. 

Neill o Dunn and his wife, . . servants. 

Neill ni'Murphie and his wife, . servants. 

Owen o Mellan and his wife, . servants, 

donell ra'Tagartt and his wife, . servants. 

Thorlagh o Sheel and his wife, . farmer. 

Edmond o Sheel and his wife, . servants. 

Willm o Sheel and his wife, . servants. 

Owen o Connallan and his wife, . servants. 

Patrick og m'Nultie and wife, . servants. 

James Dunlap and wife, . . farmer. 

Adam Blaith, .... servant. 

James Andrew, .... servant. 

Jeanet Blaith, .... servant. 

Phellomy o donnally and wife, . farmer. 

Hugh o donnally and his wife, . labourer. 

Neel m'Ghee and his wife, . . labourer. 

Shan o donnally and wife, . . farmer. 

Owen o donnally and wife, . . labourer. 

Neell o donnallv and wife, . . labourer. 

Wast. 

Manus o Ffarskie and his wife, . farmer. 

Teig ni'Murertie and his wife, . servants. 

Edmond o Ffarskie and his wife, . servants. 

Neel m'Martrin and wife, . . servants. 

Walter o Brenigan and wife, . servants, 

donnal 1 ni'Keaven and wife, . farmer. 

Toll o Gollaghar and wife, . . labourer, 

donnaghie ni'Geer and wife, . servants. 

Cormick o Lunshagan and wife, . farmer. 

Phellemy o donnell and his wife, farmer. 

Art M'Quort and wife, . . servants. 



30? 



town Lands. Men and Women's Names. Qualification. 

James og odonnally and wife, . servants. 

Eskermore, . Andrew Wood and his wife, . servants. 

Hugh m'Cartton and his wife, . servants. 

Kill Camin, . Manus m'Callin and his wife, . farmer. 

Shan m'Callin and his wife, . servants. 

Pat m'Callin and his wife, . . servants. 

Aghnegar and Hugh o Sheill and wife, . . farmer. 

Bally quell. Brian o Laphie and his wife, . servants. 

Owen o Boy and his wife, . . servants. 

Pat o Boy and his wife, . . servants. 

Shan o Sheill and his wife, . . servants. 

Cowly, . . Georg Andersone, . . . farmer. 

Corragh and John Andersone and his wife, . farmer. 

Aghneglee. William Andersone and -his wife, labourer. 

Patrick m'Cawell and his wife, . labourer. 

Cloghtinn, . Willm Boy o Mullan and his wife, farmer. 

Artt o Quin and his wife, . . servants. 

Patrick o Mullan and his wife, . servants. 

Hugh o Connellan and his wife, . servants. 

Neale o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Edmond o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Phellomy Dow ohow and his farmer. 

wife. 

Teig Boe o Mullan and his wife, . servants. 

Patrick m'Carttan and his wife, . servants. 

Murtogh o donnally and his wife, servants. 

Owen o Conuellan and his wife, . servants. 

Mullaghmore, Thorlagh o Mullaghan and wife, . farmer. 

Pat o Quillinan and his wife, . servants. 

Owen o Mullaghan and his wife, . servants. 

Shan o Quillinan and his wife, . servants, 

donald Mimniagh and wife, . servants. 

Tollyrush, . James Anderson and his wife, . servants. 

>. Alex r . Smith and his wife, . . farmer. 

—■ John Smith and his wife, . . servants. 

Tullyhiraine, . Thomas Peery and his wife, . farmer. 

John Givan and his wife, . . farmer. 

Gilbert Littell and wife, . . servants. 

Phellomy Mimniagh and his wife, servants. 

Banally, . James Peery and his wife, . . farmer. 

William Givan and his wife, . servants. 

Neel o'Mullarchie and wife, . servants. 

Anagh, . Shan o donnally and his wife, . servants. 

Derforchroy, . donaghy o Carr and his wife, . farmer. 

Owen o Carr and his wife, . . servants. 

Patrick Moder o donnally and his servants. 

wife. 
James Duff odonnally and his servants, 
wife. 



308 



Town Lands. 
Liss Raa, 

Oorballytakan, 

Killerdroy, 
Rascavie, 



Glenure and 
Radargam. 



Caven Reagh 
&Tonleghee. 



Ballytronan, . 



Drum Lister. 



Ram aeon, 



Drumguff, 



Bracakagh, 



Tattykirran 
and Lisboy. 



Men and Women's Names. Qualification. 

Lawghlan o Donnally and his wife, farmer. 

Laughlan o Rafferty and his wife, servants. 

Rowry m'ell Breed and his wife, . servants. 

Lawghlan o Neall and his wife, . servants. 

Patrick o Brelly and wife, . . farmer. 

Lisagh o Do well and wife, . . servants. 

Thorlagh og odonnally and wife, . labourer. 

Art o Neill and wife, . . labourer. 

Artt m'Girr and his wife, . . farmer. 

Shan m'Girr and his wife, . . servants. 

Parian o Minan and his wife, . servants, 

daniell o duff and wife, . . servants. 

Artt m'Girr and wife, . . servants. 

Corm k o Sheill and his wife, . farmer. 

Edmondm'Gonshanan and his wife, servants. 

Brian m'Kinny and wife, . . servants. 

William Rossa and wife, . . servants. 

Maha m'Roddan and wife, . . servants. 

Cnoghar m'Kenna and wife, . servants. 

Patrick ni'Cawell and his wife, . farmer. 

Owen o donnally and his wife, . servants. 

Murtogh o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Owen o Rafferty and his wife, . servants. 

Pat m'Kagneny and his wife, . servants. 

Meall m'Qwort and wife, . . servants. 

Edmond og odonnally and his wife, fanner. 

Artt o Mellan and his wife, . servants. 

Given m'Qwartt and his wife, . servants. 

Murtagh o Curreran and his wife, servants. 

Neill m'Quart Gill and his wife, . farmer. 

Thorlagh o Dally and wife, . . servants. 

Edmond o donnally and wife, . servants. 

Phellomy o Dally and wife, . servants. 

Cnoghar o Teig and his wife, . servants. 

Manus o dorrian and his wife, . farmer. 

Pat m'Canne and his wife, . servants. 

Murtagh o home and his wife, . servants. 

Douaghie o derrian and his wife, servants. 

Dermout o hoine and his wife, . servants. 

Edmond m'Gemian and his wife, . servants. 

Edmond o donnally and his wife, farmer. 

Thorlagh m' Conway and his wife, servants. 

Tool m'Canna and his wife, . farmer. 

Owen o donnaghie and wife, . servants. 

Edmond m'Cana and his wife, . servants. 

Neill m'Qwartt and his wife, . servants. 

Phellemy o Donnelly and his wife, servants. 

William o Gorman and his wife, . farmer. 

Manus m'Tinny and vife, . . servants. 



309 



Town Lands. 


Men and Women's Names. 


Qualification 


Coleskar and 


James o donnaghy and wife, 


farmer. 


Derorane. 


Patt o donnaghy and his wife, 


servants. 




Phellomy o donnally and his wife, 


servants. 




Patt og o Kernan and wife, 


servants. 




Owen m'Murarty and wife, 


servants. 




donnaghy Modor m'Gunshanan 


servants. 




and wife. 




Deror, 


James Canna and wife, 


farmer. 




James ni' Manus and his wife, 


servants. 


Bannacharon, 


Thorlagh m'Kenna and his wife, . 


farmer. 




donaghy m'Goork and his wife, . 


servants. 




Artt ni'Canna and his wife, 


servants. 


Ervillie and 


Teig ni'Gorgane and wife, . 


farmer. 


Racassone. 


Edmond o Kelly and his wife, 


servants. 




donnall ra'Gorgan and wife, 


farmer. 




Thorlagh m'Gunshanan and wife, 


servant. 


Edenderry, 


Manus in' G organ and his wife, . 


farmer. 


Garvaghy, and 


Brian o Murley and wife, . 


servants. 


Aughegllan. 


Pat m'ill Lone and wife, 


farmer. 




Manus o Lafferty and wife, . 


servants. 




Murtogh o Lunhy and wife, 


servants. 


Cravaneagh, . 


William Ghram and wife, . 


labourer. 




Thomas Hock well and wife, 


labourer. 




Pat. o Connally and wife, . 


labourer. 


Campsone, 


James Clarke and wife, 


farmer. 




John Wylly and wife, 


servants. 


Come Coymon, 


Henry Kenedy and wife, 


farmer. 


Ramacan, 


Thomas davy and wife, 


servants. 


Altdromone, . 


Edmond o Tonny and wife, . 


farmer. 




Challe m'Kernan and wife, . 


labourer. 




Owen m'Kernan and wife, . 


labourer. 




Pat. m'Barran and wife, 


labourer. 




donnell o Kernan and wife, . 


labourer. 




Thomas Dow o Conninghan and 


labourer. 




wife. 





(Endorsement.) 

The whole sume contained in the win Booke, being the returne 
of the seconde Polemoney for the Parrish of Termon m'Gourke, 
amounts unto xxv h xi s oo d . 



Wm. Richardsone. 

Willm. Moore. 



Tho. Golborne. 



[In the original Roll, the " Summe in Lenth" is given at which 
each person was assessed, being " fower shillinges " for each 
married, and "twoe shillinges" for each unmarried "ffarmer;" 
" twoe shillinges " for each married, and one shilling for each un- 
married servant or labourer.] 



310 

HEARTH MONEY. 

14th & 15th Chas. II, c. 17 (1662).— Imposes a tax of 2s. 
each on every " hearth and other place used for firing and stoves 
within every (dwelling and other house and edifice that are or 
hereafter shall be erected within this Kingdom of Ireland other 
than such as are in this Act hereafter excepted), sec. 1 . Persons 
living on alms exempted, sec. 13. And all houses certified by two 
justices to be not of greater value than 8s. upon the full improved 
rent, and that the persons occupying the same do not have use or 
occupy any lands or tenements of the value of 85. per acre, or have 
any lands, tenements, goods, or chattels of the value of £4 in 
their own possession, or held in trust for them, sec. 14. [Re- 
stricted to widows by 17 & 18 Chas. II., c. 18, sec. 11 (1665)."] 

17 & 18 Chas. II., c. 18 (1665).— Houses having no fixed hearth 
with chimneys chargeable with two hearths, sec. 14. 

A return of all the Hearth, Fireplaces, and Stones within the 
County of Tiron, as the same was returned and taken att a private 
Sessions held att Newstewarton 28th March in the eighteenth 
year of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord Charles the Seacond by 
the Grace of God, of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, 
King, defend, of the faith, &c, befor Gerard Jevine, esq., Dr. 
Thomas Buttolph, and Bernard Buterfield, esq., his Maties Justices 
of the Peace in the county aforesaid for one year commencing at 
Michaelmas 1665 and determining at Michms. 1666. 



HEARTH MONEY ROLL. 

1666 (Public Record Office). 
Omagh Barrony. 



Denominacons of Lands. 



Psh. Termonmagork. 
Mens Names. 



Cloghfine, . 
Coragh,* 


Brian m'Mah, 
Phelemij Donnellij, 
John Anderson, . 


Ballihallaghan, 


William Anderson, 
Donald M'Kesne, 


Ballkill and Aughi- 


) Donold Laphij, . 

J Shan Sheel, 
Phelemij Mulmoniij, 
Neill M'Kennij, . 
John Anderson. . 


nagarrij. 
Killkame, 


Ossnagh, 
Glenur, 


Donakhij M'Girr, 
Cormick Sheell, 
Patrick Teige, . 


Radergan, 


Brian M'Keanij, . 
Enid M -Martin, . 


Claghernisclew, 


Torlogh Cugan, . 




Malion Macroddan, 



Fire hearths. 
One hearth. 



* Coraarh is now called Sixmilecross. 



311 



Deuominacons of Lands. 


Mens Names. 


Fire hearths. 


Rosea vij, 


Phelemij Momnagh, 


. One hearth. 




Ouen M'Elgirr, . 


jj 


Carbellitackan, 


Hugh M'Rorij, . 


' 1) 




Conor o Gorman, . 


f) 


Lagacorrij, . 


Shan o Donnallij, 


}J 




John o Donnallij, 


}) 


Killadroy, 


Teege o Donnally, 


)f 




Brian M'lllbreed, 


' >) 


Laghfearne, . 


Shan o Neill, 


' JJ 


Seskanor, 


Mamy o Horisk, . 


» 




Hugh o Horiske, . 


• >> 




Neill M'Martin, . 


• )) 


Mullaghmor, . 


Hugh Warnoke, . 


• )> 




Alexander Scott, . 


• )> 




Donald Moinagh, 


• >) 


Ranallij, 


James Perrij, 


?» 


Tulliross, 


Alexander Smith, 


}} 




James Anderson, . 


)> 


Tullihirme, . 


Thomas Peerij, 


)) 




John Creige, 


1} . 


Mullagh, 


James Dunlappe, . 


>) 


Lissara, 


Laughlin o Ravertij, 


• >) 




William Watson, . 


)) 


Dirivercroy, . 


Shan o Mullerive, 


5J 




Patrick o Donallij, 


J5 


Donaghenee, . 


Torlogh o Sheele, . 


J) 




Laughlan o Donallij, 


75 




Murtagh Maquort, 


>> 




Teege o Sheell, 


>> 


Tatticoran, . 


William M'Gorman, 


)) 




Donaghij M'Elirr, 


>> 


Eskermor anc 


] Andrew Woods, . 
j" Brian o Ferrinan, 


>> 


Cloghernij. 


)> 


Laragh-linsij, 


Artt. M'Girr, 


JJ 




Shan o Selevin, . 


JJ 


Baragh, 


Phelemij o Donallij, 


5' 




Hugh M'Gurigan, 


J> 


Coullij, 


Edward Homes, . 


>> 




Phelemij M'Girr, 


J) 


Altdrumond, . 


Neel M'Ceemon, . 


J) 




Edmond o Tanij, . 


)) 




Call M'Kernan, . 


JJ 




John M'Kernan, . 


)) 


Bracagh, 


Neill o Donaghij, . 


3) 




Shan o Donallij, . 


>> 


Drum duff, 


Phelemij o Donallij, 


>> 




Neill M'Quork, . 


)) 


Ramackan, . 


Dermond o Hoyne, 


it 




Edmond o Donallij, 


)) 



312 



Denominacons of Lands. 
Ballitren, 
Drunilester, . 

Cavanreagh, . 
Aghigogan, . 



Agharkee and 
Tirwnij. 



.} 



Camsan, 

Crevnagh and Gal- 
bally. 

Tetikeel, 

Racassan and Lis- 
coppan. 

Ramakan and Corr 

Edenderrij, . 

Lisslea, 

Aghiogallan. 

Logh M'Rorij, 

Stlugan and Aghi- 
nanarigh. 

Dunmisk and Enis- 

tive. 
Ballekill, Gortfin, 

and Tonregee. 



Sultin, . 

Mullin, Lagnasa- 
mer, Carrickniore 
and Killin. 



Aghinagrogan, 
Cregan, 



Mens Names. 
Artt M'Keagnij, . 
Edmond o Donallij, 
Teege oDallij, 
Torlogh o Teeg, . 
Mnrtagk o Donallij, 
Edmond o Donallij, 
Patrick o Donallij, 
Murtagk o Ravertij, 
Shan Magork, 
Torlogh o Kenedij, 
Shan M'Gork, 
Patrick M'Gork, . 
John Magunshanan, 
Neel M'Gork, 
Patrick M'Croniresk, 
David Atcheson, . 
) Artt. o Managhan, 
J William Grhame, 
Teeg M'Gurigan, . 

V Edmond M'Gurigan, 

Rorij oge Macolgan, 
Brian o Neill, 
Neill Magunshanan, 
Ouen M' Conway, . 
Phelemij M'Canna, 
) Brian oge Moynagh, 
J Henrij M'Rorij, . 
Edward M'Canna, 
) Neill o Cunasfh, . 
J Patrick o Donaghij, 
) James o Donnallij, 
J William M'Rorij, 
Torlogh M'Kegnij, 
Brian o Ravertij, . 
Cormick o Ravertij, 
Teege o Ravertij, . 
Patrick M'Keagnij, 
Torlogh M'Goirke, 
Patrick m'Qiiort, 
~) Artt. ni'Goirk, 
>■ Neile ni'Goirk, 
) James m 'Rorij, 
Teege m'Gilduffe, . 
Edmond m'Closkij, 
Cullow m'Crener, 
Xeill Magaiishanan, 
Forish o Tannij, . 
Artt m'Conwaij, . 



Fire hearths. 
One hearth. 



313 



Denominacons. 


Men's Names. 


Fire Hearths 


Millaghstlinnij, 


. Henrij o Lughran, 


. One hearth. 




Owen Magunshanan 


• 11 


Bancran, Diroran, ) Brian m'Egirr, 


• 11 


and Colisker. 


J Artt m'Cana, 


* 11 




James m'Cana, 


11 




William m'Cramlin, 


• 11 




James m'Manus, . 


11 




(121 hearths.) 




Omagh Barrony. 






Termonmagorke Parish. 




Denominacons of Lands 


Inhabitants' Names. 


Fire Hearths. 


Cloghfine, 


. Hugh o Connellan, 


One hearth. 




Phelemy o Hugh, 


n 


Corrahahuahee, 


. John Anderson, . 


j j 




William Anderson, 


j? 




John Drumond, . 


j? 


Bellihalleghan, 


. Donald Magoune, 


>) 


Ballykeill, . 


. ) Hugh o Sheill, . 
. j Shan o Sheill, 


11 


Aghnagur, 


JJ 




Donnell o Lerftij, 


11 


Cullcane, 


. Neill m'Kennij, . 


11 


TJrsuagh, 


. Donachij m'Girr, . 


11 


Glamer and 


) Cormicke o sheill, 
. J Brian m'Kennij, . 


j) 


Raclargan 


11 




Owen o Sheil, 


jj 


Clogherna- Sclea, 


. Torlogh o Gugan, . 


11 




Neill m'Murphij, . 


11 




Donaghij m'Cugan, 


11 


Roscarij, 


. Artt m'Girr, 


11 




Donold o Dowij, . 


11 




Phelemij Muinagh, 


11 


Corbelletackan, 


. Conner o Gorman, 


11 




Richard m'Kerrij, 


11 




Hugh m'Rorij, 


11 


Lagacory, 


Shan o Donnallij, 


11 




Owen o Donnallij, 


11 


Killadrey, 


Hugh o Donnallij, 


11 




Artt o Neill, 


>) 


Beagh, . 


Torlogh o Donnallij, 


11 


Laughtfearn, . 


Donachij o Tey, . 


11 


Siskaner, 


Manus o Feriskij, 


11 




Tuge m'Murertij, . 


11 




Hugh o Foreskij, . 


11 


Mullaghmor, 


Torlagh o Mullaghan, . 


11 




Donald Mimnagh, 


11 


j Tullirasij, 


Alexander Smith, 


11 


James Andersone, 


11 



314 



Denominacons of Lands. 


Inhabitants' Names. 


Fire Hearths. 


Ranallij, 


James Peery, 


One hearth 


Tullyheirine, . 


Thomas Peery, 


>> 




James Givan, 


j) 


Moylagh, 


James Delapp, 


55 


Lisrue, . 


Longhlan o Ravertij, . 


55 




Neill o Donnallij, 


55 


Derfercroy, . 


James Duff o Donnallij, 


55 


Armagh, 


Patrick m'Lerenan, 


55 


Donnaghenij, 


Torlogh o Sheile, . 


55 




Laughlan o Donnallij, . 


55 




Torlogh Magunshanan, 


55 




Murtagh Maquort, 


55 


Tatekirran, . 


William o Gorman, 


5? 




Donaghij m'Elirr, 


55 


Bannaghran, . 


Torlogh m'Cann, . 


5' 




James m'Girr, 


J5 


Deroran, 


Donaghij Magunshanan, 


55 


Colesker, 


James o Donaghij, 


55 


Cloghernebegg, 


Thomas Delapp, . 


55 


Eskmor, 


Phelemij o Donnallij, . 


55 


Laraghlunchij, 


Brian m'Gilhone, . 


55 


Baragh, 


Phelemij o Donnallij, . 


55 




Hugh ui'Gourgan, 


55 


Cowlij, . 


Edward Holmes, . 


55 


A ltdriimon, . 


Neill rn'Remon, . 


55 




Edmond o Tannij, 


55 




Call m'Kernan, . 


55 




Owen oDonnallij, 


55 


Bracagh, 


Neill o Donaghij, . 


55 




Edmond o Donnallij, . 


55 




Teege ni'Quorte, . 


55 


Drurnguff, 


Phelemij o Donnallij, . 


55 




Neill m'Quorte, . 


55 


Ramackan, . 


Artt o Hegnij, 


55 




Dermond o Hone, 


' 55 




Edmond o Donnallij, 


55 


Bellitrean, 


. Edmond o Donnallij, 


55 




Artt o Mellan, 


55 


Drum leister, . 


Torlogh o Teege, . 


J5 




Neall m'Gill, 


55 




Phelemij o Dallij, 


55 


Cavanreagh, . 


. Patrick o Donnallij, 


55 




Peirce m'Grah, 


55 


Cornacaniise, 


. Henrij Kenedij, . 


• 55 


Erfelij, . 


. Teige ni'Gourgan, 


• 55 


Racasbren, . 


. ) Edmond ni'Gourgan, . 
. f Donold Magourgan, 


55 


Liscaban, 


55 




Widdow o Cassedij, 


. 


Garvacliij, 


James Gran°er, . 


>> 



315 



f)enominacons of Lands. 


Inhabitants' Names. 


Fire Hearths. 


Lisle, Eclenderij, 


James Magunshanan, . 


One hearth. 




Torlogh o Sclevin, 






Manus o Lafertij, 


j> 


Aghagallan, . 


. Edmond o Sheile, 


j> 




Owen o Connallan, 




Crevenagh, . 


. William Grhame, 


,> 




John Rutherford, 


jj 


Campson, 


David Acchesone, 


jj 


Aghagogan, . 


. Shan Magourke, . 


>» 




Torlogh Kennedy, 


)> 




Edmond M'Crorij, 


>) 


Aghnarij, 


Brian m'Murertij, 


5> 




Patrick m'Crumreske, . 


JJ 


Aghm'Rorij, . 


Artt m/Cann, 


V 




Hugh o Kellij, 


5) 


Slugan, . 


. Toall m'Cann, 


JJ 




Brian Minenagk, . 


JJ 


Dunniiske, 


. Patrick o Donnallij, 


j) 


Evisitive, 


Patrick o Donnaghij, . 


)) 


Ballikirke and 


) James o Donnallij, 
. J William m'Rorij, 


)5 


Gortfine, 


J J 




Brian o Roartij, . 


» 




Cormicke o Ravertij, . 


» 




Teeg o Ravertij, . 


)J 


Siltine, . 


. Torlogh Magourke, 


JJ 




Manus M'Gourke, 


JJ 




Torlogh mor Magourke, 


Jj 


Agkenernij, . 


Patrick Magourke, 


' >? 




Aurias Magourke, 


)? 


Mullen and 


) Neill Magourke, . 
. J James M'Rorij, . 


JJ 


Legnasnamard, 


55 




James Magourke, 


JJ 




Brian M'Gilduffe, 


' 55 


Aghnegregan, 


. Neill Magunshanan, 


J) 




Ouen Magunshanan, 


JJ 


Cregan, 


. Artt m'Conroy, . 


5) 




Don old m'Finnij, . 


55 


Derer, . 


. James m'Cann, 


JJ 




Brian m'Girr, 


JJ 


Miillaghslin, . 


. Teege Magunshanan, . 


55 




Neall o Tannij, 


53 




Ouen Magunshanan, . 


JJ 




Donachij Magunshanan, 


55 



For County. (128 hearths.) 

Sum Total, £324 16s. 

Signed, Tho. Buttolph. 

Ger. Frome. 
Tho. Golborne. 
Y2 



316 



(Subsidy Roll, 1663.) 
Termont m'Guirk Pearish. 

Sir William Ussher for Rent, 
M'Gines for Rent, . 
James Dulap for Stock 

•John Anderson do., 
William Gibens, alias 

Givan, do., 

Thomas Dulap do., 

Henry Kenady do., 

James Peery do., 

John Willson do., 

John Sempell do., 

Donel o Devlin do., 

James Heggan do., 

Patrick o Corle do., 

Manas m'Kingley do., 

James o Divin do., 

Alexander m'Caslin do., 
George Anderson, . 

The severall sumes charged upon the inhabitants of Omagh 
barony amounteth unto the sume of Three Hundred and Twenty 
Pounds, and is payable by Humphry Enett, esq. 



£ 


s. 


d. 


09 


00 


00 


04 


10 


00 


09 


06 


00 


05 


14 


00 


04 


08 


00 


01 


10 


00 


07 


06 


00 


08 


14 


00 


03 


05 


00 


06 


15 


00 


06 


07 


00 


03 


10 


00 


04 


10 


00 


05 


10 


00 


04 


05 


00 


07 


00 


00 


02 


00 


00 



Names of Parishes. 



Signed, 

Tithes. 

Barony of Omeigh. 

Present Tenants. 



Tho. Golborne. 
William Coore. 
James Hane. (?) 



Rent Reserved. 



Termonmaguirk, 
Dromragh, 
Drommore, 
Magherycron, . 
Kilskeery, 



Humphry Galbraith, 
William Larkane, . 
Lt. Arth. Newburgh, 
Andrew Hamilton, 
Qr.-Mr. John Britton, 



029 05 00 

005 17 00 

002 18 06 

001 00 06 

001 14 01 



Badony, . 

Oappy, 

Ardstra, . 

Camos, 

Urney, 

Leckpatricke, 

Donnoghkiddy, 



Barrony of Strabane. 
Lieut. Arth. Newburgk, 
Lieut. Alex. Caslan,* 
Lieut. Wm. Hamilton, 
Benjamin Ash, 
Capt. Oliver Ancktill, 
John Lesly, . 
Qr.-Mr. John Britton, 



040 15 10 

033 07 10 
019 10 00 
049 14 06 
023 16 00 

034 02 06 
025 07 00 
078 00 00 



263 r 



10 



* Elsewhere M 'Caslan. He leased the glebes of Cappy 



Denomination of Name of Parish to 
Gleab Land. which they belong. 



317 

• Gleabs. 
Barrony of Omeigh. 

Present Tenant. 



Humphry Galbraith, 



Rent Reserved. 

£ s. d. 
004 07 09 



Aldraman, \ 
Mologhlany, f Termonma 
Clogherny, & j guirk, 
Templemoile, ) 

&c, &c., &c, &c. 

The foregoing Tithes and Gleabes are charged in the account of 
Samuel Hill, receiver, at Londonderry, ending the 20th of May, 
1657. 

Church Lands. 
Barrony of Omeigh. 



Denominacon of 
Lands. 


Former 
Proprietor. 


Present Tenant. 


Parish to which 
said Lands 
doth belong. 


Rent 
Reserved. 


Aghanree and 

Tyroony, 
Sheerdrum, 
Kascasan, two 

Sessiogs. 


See of Derry, 
See of Derry, 
See of Derry, 


Matthew Combe, 
Wm. Hamilton, . 
Lt. Arthur Nu- 
burgh, 


Termonmaghe, 
Cappy, . 

Cappy, . 


£ s. d. 
001 19 00 
000 17 06 

000 10 00 



APPENDIX M. 

The following notes respecting the Parish of Termon- 
maguirk, are extracted from a series of papers by the Rev. 
R. V. Dixon, D.D., published in the " Parish Magazine " of 
1860 and 1861. (Edited by the Rev. J. Erskine Clarke, 
M.A., Yicar of St. Michael's, Derby) : — 

In the course of his introductory remarks, the writer 
says : — 

" The district would appear never to have been a fertile one. 
Two hundred years ago, the greater part of its hills were probably 
overgrown with heather ; whilst the hollows between them were 
filled with bog. At an earlier, but probably not very remote 
period, the whole country seems to have been covered with a 
forest, in which oaks and firs attained a considerable size, and 
which contained also extensive clumps of hazel and yew, and 
smaller trees. The holms of the rivers alone, probably, furnished 
good arable or pasture land. Such a district offered small 
attractions to settlers at a time when the whole population of the 
island was small, and the resources of the richest and most fertile 
portions of it were but imperfectly developed." 

" Two localities in the district — one in the present parish of 
Clogherny — the other in Termonmaguirk, are connected with the 



318 

names of Patrick and Columbkille ; and it is highly probable that 
the Churches of Donaghanie and Termonmaguirk, owe their 
origin to those saints, or to some of their earliest disciples. The 
existence, too, of the extensive Church lands of Termonma- 
guirk, from which the parish derives its name, when coupled with 
the local traditions connected with Columbkille, renders it 
probable that a religious house of some extent existed here at an 
early period, to the support of whose inmates these lands were 
dedicated by the piety of some ancient chief." 

The head of a religious house was called an Abbot, and also the 
Coarb, i.e., the successor of the founder. In the 9th, 10th, and 
11th centuries, the heads of these houses were often laymen. The 
office was frequently heriditary according to the custom of 
Tanistry, by which the inheritance of a chief did not necessarily 
pass to his son, but to some person selected by the family or clan 
during the chief's lifetime, and who was called the Tanist. 

The church or churches attached to these places of worship 
served for the neighbourhood, but were not parish churches ; for 
the division of the country into dioceses and parishes, was only 
effected by authority of the Church of Rome in the 12th century. 
The lands assigned for the support of these establishments were 
called Termon lands. If no right of sanctuary existed, they were 
called Erenagh lands. The successor to the founder of a house of 
minor importance, was called, not a Coarb, but an Erenagh. 
There were female Coarbs and Erenaghs, such as Bridgid and 
others. 

The lands were generally farmed under the superintendence of 
the Coarb or Erenagh, by a sept or clan, for the benefit of the 
house to which they belonged. The clan frequently gave their 
name to the Termon ; hence Termon Maguirk was so called 
because the sept of the Maguirks for some time before the plan- 
tation of Ulster, farmed the Termon lands. This was not, how- 
ever, the original name of the Termon 

The present parish church stands at the entrance of the village 
of Carrickmore, and was erected at the beginning of the present 
century. " Higher up the hill, stand the remains of an older 
(Protestant) church, built after the settlement of Ulster, about 
the beginning of the 1 7th century, surrounded by a burial ground, 
now used exclusively, I believe, by Roman Catholics, and close 
by, is the Roman Catholic Chapel, a modern structure, situated 
nearly on the highest point of the hill, and forming a conspicuous 
object in the landscape for miles around." 

" No trace whatever remains of any of the buildings connected 
with the original Termon, nor does any local tradition record their 
existence, or their site. Some singular burial places, evidently of 
great antiquity, and some sacred wells, to which we will after- 
wards refer more particularly, alone remain to attest the early 
existence of a religious settlement in this locality." 

The earliest tradition which attributes the establishment of 
this Termon to Columbkille, is found in a life of the saint, written 
in Irish, by O'Donnell, a prince of Tirconnell, about A.D., 1520. 



319 

Only some fragments are extant of the Irish original, one of which, 
preserved in the Royal Irish Academy, contains that portion 
which records the tradition. It is there called, Termon-Cuiniinigh, 
and the smilarity of this name to Termon-Comyn, which this 
Ternion bore as late as the 17 th century, renders it highly 
probable that it is identical with the modern Termonmaguirk. 
A circumstance connected with the tradition, converts this pro- 
bability into a certainty. 

"The account of the establishment of the Termon given by 
O'Donnell, is as follows : — 

' On a certain occasion, that Columbkille was in the place 
called at this day Termon-Cuiminigh, in Tyrone, he consecrated 
that place, and gave it a Termonn for ever after. And he struck 
three strokes of his crozier into the hill, and a well sprung in the 
place of each one of them. And he spoke through the spirit of 
prophecy, and said, that Donneli, the son of Aedh. (Hugh), thai; 
is, the King of Erinn, and the race of Conall along with him, 
would come to the Termonn, and the hosts would commit great 
defilements there, and that himself would be at that time in 
Scotland, and that it would be a pity for the descendants of 
Conall to injure or harm this Termon, whilst himself was in 
perpetual exile from Erinn. And he said that he would obtain 
from God, that the King of Erinn should be filled with disease 
and debility, and that none of them should possess the strength 
of a woman ... on that occasion, until the Coarb of the 
place should have received from the King his full demand for 
the injury done to the Termonn ; and when he had received that, 
that he should sprinkle some of the water of the wells on the 
King and his host, and that they would be immediately healed, 
and that Tobaii-na-g-Conallach (that is wells of the descendants 
of Conall) should be the name of these wells for ever after, in 
commemoration of this great miracle. All this prophecy was 
fulfilled in all things.' 

Now there is a well in the immediate vicinity of Carrickmore, 
in a field near the corner of the road, leading to Lough Macrory, 
which bears to this day the name of Tobar-na-craobh-Conallach, 
or well of the branch (that is, race), of the descendants of Connall. 
And this fact is at once interesting as proving the fidelity with 
which the Irish names of localities are preserved (in Irish speaking 
districts), even without documentary aid, and important as 
establishing decisively the identity of our Termon with the 
Termon-Cuiminigh of O'Donnell." 

Ireland was divided into dioceses and parishes in the twelfth 
century, and the Parish of Termon Cuiminigh was constituted 
before the end of the 13th century — how long before is not 
known. 

The first mention of it occurs in a valuation of the benefices of 
the diocese of Armagh, made between 1291 and 1306, for the 
purposes of a papal taxation, generally known by the name of 
Pope Nicholas' taxation. The original record of this valuation is 
still extant, in one of the recoid offices in London. The parish is 



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entered by the name of Termeconyn, and its annual value is stated 
to be two marks, or £1 6s. Sd. ; one-tenth part of which, or 
2s. 8d, was the amount of the tax assessed. 

The parish had both a Rector and a Yicar ; both appointed by 
the Archbishop of Armagh. The Rectory was originally a 
Prebend of Armagh, until the seventeenth century, when the 
Prebends, were reduced from sixteen, to the present number, 
four. 

From the inquisition above quoted, we learn that the Rector 
received two third parts of the tithes, and the vicar one third 
part of all the parish, except the townland of Donaghaine — 
Donaghaine was about seven Irish miles South West of Carriek- 
more, and on it until a recent period, stood the remains of a 
Church called Donagh-a-nie, or the Church of the Horse, which, 
like all the other Donaghs in Ireland, is said to have been founded 
by St. Patrick. The church, with its adjacent churchyard (which 
was in 1860, and may still be), used as a place of interment, stood 
on the top of a low, round, drift hill, overlooking a bog, in which 
is a small lake, called Lough Patrick. The surrounding townland, 
belonged, in the seventeenth century, to the See of Clogher, and 
before that was the property of some religious house, probably the 
Abbey of Clogher. 

" The following legendary account of the origin of the church 
is current in the neighbourhood. 

" It happened one time, that Patrick was in Drumconnelly, (a 
townland in the parish of Drumragh,* on the borders of Clogherny), 
and he was travelling towards the place now called Donagh-a-nie, 
and he met a man with a horse who told him that it was not safe 
for him to go any further in that direction, on account of a Peist 
(pronounced Pastia), a gigantic eel, or water serpent, which 
frequented a lake about a mile off, and which destroyed all men 
and cattle which came within its suckage. And Patrick said to 
the man, ' If you lend me your horse, I will enable him, by the 
power of the God I serve, to destroy the Peist ' ; and the man 
lent him his horse. And Patrick went on until he came to the 
top of the hill over the lough, and he ordered the horse to go 
down and destroy the Peist ; and the horse made three leaps, and 
in the last he leaped into the lough ; and he drove the Peist out 
of it. And the Peist fled along the watercourse out of the lough, 
until it came to an Esker ; and then it fled along the top of the 
Esker — and its track may still be seen j and at the end of the 
Esker is a small round gravel hill, and the Peist went round and 
round this hill, trying to burrow into it and escape the horse, but 
the horse killed it then — And the horse went back to Patrick, 
full of wrath and fury, and he was so fierce and violent, that the 
Saint feared he would do some mischief, and he ordered him to 
go into the lough, and to stay there until the day of judgment. 
And the horse is there still j and there are men living who belie ve 
they have seen him. And Patrick built a church on the top of 

* Diocese of Derrv. 



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the hill where he stood, to commemorate this event, and to 
remind the people of the power of God, who enabled his servant 
to work this great deliverance for them. And the church is called 
Donagh-a-nie, or the church of the horse." 

To return to the tithes — The tithes of wool, corn, fish, and flax 
were paid in kind ; for every milch cow, id. was paid, and 
for every herd of swin^, one pork. The Archbishop of Armagh 
received a rent of 34s. and \0d. out of the Termon lands, with 
ten methers of butter, and fines for bloodshed. 

It appears (from an inquisition held at Dungannon in 1609), 
that in addition to the parish church, there was a chapel of ease, 
called "Templemoyleneclogherny," that is, the bare,ov bald church, 
of Clogherny, so called, either because it had no tower, or because 
it was, at the time, roofless. This church now forms the parish 
church of Clogherny,* whose side walls are part of the original 
edifice. The general use of the appellation Templemoyle seems 
to show that the church was regarded as ancient in 1609. To 
this chapel was attached a sessiagh of glebe called Clogherny, 
which appears originally to have formed a part of the town land 
of Laragh. Or rather the two denominations seem to have 
formed the townland of Durachrigh, or Dericriagh, of the original 
Patent (in connexion with the Plantation of Ulster), and of the 
map of 1609. 

The following is an abstract of all the entries relative to 
this parish which occur in the Primatia] Registries, for 
which the writer of the articles from which I draw my in- 
formation, is indebted to the learned antiquarian and Church 
historian, Dr. Reeves : — 

" 1367, June 9th. Intelligence was this day conveyed to the 
Primate (Archbp. Sweetman), at his manor of Termonfeckin,f of 
the death of Neal M'Camal, Rector of Termonayncomayn ; and 
the Primate, fearing, it would seem, that the Chiefs of the Irish 
clans in the neighbourhood, would intrude some follower of their 
own into the benefice, if it lay long vacant, immediately collated 
Maurice O'Cassidy, canon of the Cathedral Church of Armagh, to 
the rectory." 

[The reason assigned here for the Primate's haste in filling up 
the vacancy, joined to the fact, that seventy years afterwards we 
find a John M'Kathmayle or M'Camal holding the prebend, 
apparently without the entire approval of the Primate of his 
day, suggests the suspicion that the Irish Chiefs in the neigh- 
bourhood wished to make the rectory hereditary in some of their 
own families, as the old Coarbships and Erenaghies had been, 
and still were.] 

" 1412. — Memorandum, that Dermot M'Gork hath a deed of 
the lands of Achrych Duesk, Molynmor, and Molynbeg (Craigna- 

* It has a tower now. 

f This is a few miles from Drogheda. 



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devesky, Mullinmore, and Mullinbeg), ' in our Lordship of Ter- 
mon,' dated 12th day of January, 1412. 

1428. — In an old schedule of the Primates, " Redditus," or 
" Revenues of the See," about this date, under the head of 
" Redditus de Tullaghogue," occurs the entry " De Termonconnyn 
— £0 17s. 5d." Exactly one-half of the sum returned in the 
inquisition of 1609. 

1435. — July 19. Denis O'Lucheran collated to the Vicar- 
age of Termonconnyn, vacant by the death of Dermot M'Gwyrk. 

1441. — In a list of the beneficed clergy in the rural deanery 
of Tullaghoge, occur John M'Kathmayl (M'Camul or M'Cavvell) 
rector of Argull (Errigle Keerogue),* and prebendary of Termon. 

John M'Girre, vicar of Termon. 

1441, May 19. — A definitive sentence in " causa beneficiale," 
pronounced against certain members of the Chapter of Armagh, 
and among them, "also against you, John M'Kathmayl, who 
claim to be canon of our cathedral church, of Armagh, and pre- 
bendary of Termon. in the same, and also rector of Argull, in our 
collation and diocese." 

1441, November 2. — A complaint for non-residence at Argull, 
preferred against John M'Kathmayl. 

1442, December 1. — Memorandum of a proposed exchange of the 
churches and Erenaghies of Argull, Termon, and Cillessill 
(Errigle Keerogue, Termoncomyn, and Killeshill), in the diocese 
of Armagh, for the church and Erenaghy of Mucnaue (Mucknoe or 
Castleblaney), in the diocese of Clogher, agreed upon between 
Primate Swayne and Peter, Bishop of Clogher. The exchange, 
however, does not seem to have been made. 

1445, November 21. — Excommunication, amongst others, of 
John M'Kathmayl, for not paying the archdeacon his proxies j and 
also of Percy M'Couralton, vicar of Termon. 

1469. — Notice of the proceedings in the case of a charge (sub- 
stance not stated), brought by Charles Magoirce (M'Guirk), clerk, 
against John Magirr, vicar of Termon. 

1544, July 24. — Collation of William Sloddan to the rectory or 
prebend of the parish church of St. (the name lost), of Ternion- 
magwyrke, vacant by the death of Bernard Negwynsynan." 

After the collation occurs the following memorandum : — 

"The aforesaid William hath promised with an oath, to serve 
in the cathedral and metropolitan church of Armagh, on account 
of the aforesaid prebend, or to reside in the aforesaid rectory or 
prebend, in presence of the Most Reverend (the Primate), the day 
and year aforesaid." 

From a report, dated 1622, on the " State of the Dioceses in the 
Province of Ulster, certified under the hands of the Bishop of each 
Diocese," a copy of which is in Trinity College Library, it appears 
that the Incumbent of Ternionmaguirk at that time, was " Roger 
Blythe, Master of Arts." He is stated to be " non-resident, but 

* This parish adjoins Ternionmaguirk. 



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goeth every third Sunday himselfe, and keepeth a curate, Danyell 
Hickes, brought up in the college, and readeth Irish and English, 
to whom he giveth £10 per annum, the living itself was worth 
.£60 a year. 

There was a parsonage house, built upon the glebe, and a 
" church in building." The archbishop according to the report 
was the patron, and he nominated Mr. Blythe, so that probably 
Lord and Lady Castlehaven had not yet exercised their right of 
patronage. In a visitation book, preserved in the Prerogative 
Court in Dublin, and at least six years later in date, Sir P. Crosby 
was said to be the patron, and the living worth £80 a year. Mr. 
Blythe was still rector, but the curate was Mr. James Boyke." 

" In the description of the parish, accompanying the map of it 
given in the famous Down Survey, executed by Sir W. Petty,* in 
1657, we find the following: — 

" There are standing in the parish two churches (that is), one 
at Ballinecreg, and another at Clogherny Temple ; and a noted 
house upon the road from Dimgannon to the Omeyt called Six 
Mile Crosse. The rivers of Camowen and Drumlester runne 
through the parish ; likewise the rivers Owenne Coggneeght, and 
Druran, and the brooke Dromnakill water the borders thereof." 
The brooke, Drumnakill, is the stream which separates the town- 
lands of Drumnakilly and Brackey, and runs into what was then 
called the Drumlester, but now the Camowen river (revised 
Ordnance Maps). The Druran (evidently a corruption of Deroran) 
was the portion of the Drumlester, from its junction with the 
" Drumnakill" to its junction with the Cooley, or Clogfin river. 
The Owen ne Coggreeght is the stream now called the Pouting 
Burn, which separates on the south the parish of Clogherny from 
that of Clogher. It also forms the boundary, in part of its course, 
between the baronies of Omagh and Clogher, and the dioceses of 
Armagh and Clogher ; hence its name, which signifies in Irish, 
" the boundary river." 

In the barony map of this Survey, the first church referred to 
above is named the " Church in Aghmarny ;" in the parish map 
it is shown as standing in the townland of " Ballinecreg, alias 
Aghmarney." This is evidently the church which, in 1622, was 
" in building," and, from its position in the maps, was clearly the 
church whose ruins are now standing near the Roman Catholic 
chapel above Carrickmore. These ruins, then, are those of a 
Protestant place of worship ; and the evidence of this fact, furnished 
by the documents and maps I have referred to, is confirmed by 
the circumstance, that clown to a very recent period, the rectors of 
Termonmaguirke were inducted into the living in the burial- 
ground surroundino; those ruins. 

We learn from the registry of Primate Boyle that the chancel 
of this church was destroyed in the wars of 1688." 

The townland on which the old church of Term on, which was 

* An ancestor of the Marquess of Lansdowne. 
t Omey is now spelt Omagh. 



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built in 1622, stood, was then called Ballinacreg (or more cor- 
rectly Ballinacraig) or Aghmarny. The former name is preserved 
in Rockstown, which is still the name of the upper part of the 
hill of Carrickmore. In the old vestry books, frequent reference 
isjnade to these ruins, and the surrounding burial-ground ; and so 
late as 1819, we find an entry of the assessment of <£20, " to assist 
in slating the chapel at Termon old church." 

In 1733, shortly after the division of the parish by Lord Tyrone 
and Robert Lowry, an effort was made to have the site of Termon 
church transferred to Sixmilecross. " At a vestry, held on the 
1 3th of January in that year, and attended by Mr. Howell, the 
rector, and several of the Protestant parishioners, a petition to 
the Primate was agreed upon, in which it was stated, ' that the 
parish church was in a very dilapidated state. That a new church 
might be built at less expense than the old one could be repaired. 
That its situation was very inconvenient to the Protestant 
parishioners. That Sixmilecross would be much more convenient 
to them, and that Mr. Lowry had offered land for a site in that 
town, and had further assured the parishioners, that the Reverend 
Archdeacon Charles D'Este, the late rector, would, at his own 
proper charge and expense, erect and build a convenient church in 
the said townland, and petitioners accordingly prayed the Primate 
to sanction the proposed change of site.' The prayer of the peti- 
tion was not granted. But a church was built at Sixmilecross 
from private funds, without tower or chancel, and roofed with 
shingles, and from the frequency of repairs voted at vestries, it 
was apparently very badly built. It stood on the north side of 
the street of the town, near the present market-house. The old 
church at Carrickmore was allowed to fall into ruins. This change 
of site was probably effected by Mr. Lowry, who owned the whole 
parish, except the Termon lands. Lord Tyrone the patron, and the 
absentee lessees of the Termon lands, were probably indifferent. 

The change of site however had never been sanctioned by the 
Primate, and when the Rev. Hugh Stewart became lessee of the 
Termon lands in 1770, and exerted himself in procuring the re- 
building of the parish church near the old site, the authorities 
approved of the project, and in 1786, the Board of First Fruits 
made a grant of £500, for the purpose. Not so, however, the 
majority of the Protestant parishioners. At a vestry held on 
April 16th, 1786, they resolved " That the church reported to be 
built by Mr. Stewart in Termon, is very inconvenient to the 
people of this parish in regard of situation ; and we also are de- 
termined not to attend the same, or repair it when built ; and we 
also empower the churchwardens to report the same to Mr. Stewart 
and Mr. Staples (the rector.)" 

A subsequent vestry held in September 16th (whose acts 
were confirmed by another more numerously attended on the 27th 
October), agreed to petition the Lord Lieutenant (the Duke of 
Rutland) and the Privy Council, to the effect that the parish 
church had been in ruins from time immemorial, and was situate 
in a remote part of the parish. That Sixmilecross would be a 



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much more convenient site. That Lord Tyrone and the Primate 
(Lord Rokeby) had consented to the change, and that Lord Bel- 
more had conveyed an acre of land to the churchwardens for the 
site. They accordingly prayed his Grace and their lordships, to 
make an order for the change of site. 

The advocates of the old site replied, that it was not correct to 
say that the church had been in ruins from time immemorial, as 
it was not quite one hundred years since the chancel had been 
burnt, and only fifty since there had been a question of repairing 
it. That the site was central, not remote, whilst Sixmilecross 
was on the very edge of the parish ; that Lord Tyrone and the 
Primate had given no consent, for they had never been consulted 
about the change of site ; nor had Lord Belmore made any such 
conveyance of land for a site. 

The result was that the present church in Carrickmore was 
commenced. It was completed in 1792, and opened for divine 
service in the next year, but was not consecrated till 1822. For 
several years after it was opened, divine service was celebrated in 
it and at Sixmilecross on alternate Sundays. In the year 1811, 
however, Sixmilecross church became so ruinous, that it was 
necessary to close it. The materials were sold by auction in three 
lots. Mr. S. Hall bought the flags for £2 12s. The rector, Mr. 
Beresford bought the roof for <£6, and the walls, seats, &c, were 
bought by the Rev. Mr. Brown, the Presbyterian minister for 
£9 10s. This was the church in which the late Primate used to 
officiate, when rector of Termon. 

It is not known when either the house mentioned in 1609, as 
belonging to the vicar, or the " parsonage house built uppon the 
gleabe," mentioned in "The State of the Church in 1622," stood. 
At the beginning of the century there was no glebe house. In 
1807 the Rev. Dr. Henry Stewart, having obtained authority to 
build a glebe house in Altdrummond, commenced the work by the 
erection of office houses, in Streefe; but in 1810 his successor 
Mr. Beresford obtained permission from the Primate, to change 
the site to the more central one, on which Termon rectory was 
subsequently built. This house, being considered by the Repre- 
sentative Body to be too large for the parish under its present 
altered circumstances, now that the Church has been disestablished, 
has recently been sold to the Rev. S. Alexander, the late Rector. 

Although the site of the parish church is central, it is by no 
means so as regards the distribution of the Protestant parishioners. 
About 1830, steps were taken by the inhabitants of Sixmilecross to 
procure another church there. Arrangements were made, whereby 
divine service was for the next five years celebrated in the 
Presbyterian meeting-house, placed by the congregation at the 
Rector's disposal, at an hour before the one usual for their own 
service on Sundays. In 1834, Lord Belmore made a grant of a 
site for a churchyard, close to the town ; and a church was built 
with funds, obtained from the Board of First Fruits, and con- 
secrated in September, 1836. A district was subsequently annexed 
to it, comprising fourteen townlands of Termonmaguirk, five of 



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Clogherny, and five of Erriglekeerogue. This was constituted a 
distinct incumbency under the name of Cooley, by an order of the 
Privy Council in 1837. The Reverend Andrew Christie was the 
first incumbent ; he was succeeded by the Reverend Mr. Bell. 
After the Church was disestablished, Mr. Bell " compounded " and 
resigned, and the parish went as it is called "upon the diocesan 
scheme " with an income of £250 a year. It was one of the very 
few parishes whose income was largely increased by " disestablish- 
ment," having previously not exceeded £110 a year. The Rev. 
W. R, Weir succeeded Mr. Bell in 1871 ; upon his death after 
but a short incumbency, he was succeeded by the Rev. Robert 
O'Loghlen, in 1877. The parsonage house was built about 
1859. 

In 1843, the Rev. Mr. Beresford procured the building (by 
subscriptions), of a third church in Drumnakilly, on a site granted 
by the late Alexander M'Causland, Esq. A residence was also built 
for the minister. Drumnakilly now forms a separate incum- 
bency. 

After the division of the parish in 1733, the ancient chapel-of- 
ease at Clogherny Temple became the parish church of Clogherny. 
The north and south walls of the aisles are the only parts of the 
original fabric now remaining. The tower was built by the late 
rector, the Rev. James Lowry, and the gallery by his father and 
predecessor, the Rev. John Lowry, at his own expense, for the use 
of the rector. During the progress of some extensive repairs in 
1855, which cost £600, nearly entirely defrayed by the 
Ecclesiastical Commissioners, the removal of the plaster, revealed 
traces of numerous doors and windows, which had been opened in 
the walls and closed again. Some of the lintels being deeply 
charred showed that at some time in its history the church had 
been burnt ; its whole interior had also been used as a place of inter- 
ment. This was probably, after it had been burnt, and whilst it was 
roofless. When this was, is not known. But as has already been 
shown, it was in 1609, known as Templemoyle, the bare church. 

The original churchyard was limited to the area enclosed by the 
sycamore trees still standing on it. It was enlarged to its present 
extent by the Rev. John Lowry. 

On the other side of the palish is a chapel-of-ease, at Seskinore. 
Before this was built service was performed in a schoolhouse 
here, in the afternoon, whenever there was service in Cloghernv 
Church. 

The rectory house was built by the Rev. John Lowry in 1778, 
and enlarged by his son the Rev. James Lowry in 1830. He also 
gave it the name of Somerset. It is so large as to be quite useless 
to future incumbents with the diminished income of .£'250 a year. 
and has been purchased with its surrounding grounds, from the 
Representative Body, by the present rector. 

There are three Presbyterian meeting-houses in the two parishes 
of Termon and Clogherny, situate in the townlands of Dervachroy, 
Sixmilecross, and Seskinore. From a stone in the one at 
Dervaghroy, bearing the date 1720, it would seem that the 



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original house was of that date. Some people say that it stood on 
a field in Laragh, called Meeting-house Field. 

[On the 24th July, 1776, * Armar Lowry Corry (subsequently 
Earl Belmore), made a grant of two roods of land in Dervaghroy, 
as lately laid out by James Fenton, of Raw, to Thomas Gledstanes, 
of Ferdross, Esq. , Samuel Perry, of Mullaghmore, and E. Hemp- 
hill, of Laragh, gentleman, at a yearly rent of 10s., in trust for 
the Dissenting congregation of the parish of Clogherny. The 
minister was, within three years, to enclose the same with a ditch 
five feet deep, and six feet wide, and plant the same with haw- 
thorn quicks and forest trees, and build a gate and stone pillars. 
The hedge was to be neatly clipped, and the place always kept in 
a decent condition. If this were not done, the agreement was 
to be void, and Armar Lowry Corry and his heirs might re-enter.] 

The church is said to have been built about 1770. The first 
minister was the Rev. Joseph Hemphill, nephew of a person of the 
same name, who, in conjunction with another Scotchman named 
Scott, took a lease of Laragh soon after the siege of Derry. Mr. 
Hemphill's stipend was £9 a year, with an allowance of oats for 
his horse. 

The Rev. Mr. Scott, the next minister, was killed in a mysterious 
manner in 1780, in or near the village of Seskinore, as he was 
returning home from Fintona, in company with some volunteers, 
of which body he was an active member. 

The Rev. James Kerr succeeded Mr. Scott. He was minister 
for over forty-two years. In his time, a slated roof replaced the 
thatched one, and a gallery was built. The next minister was the 
Rev. Archibald Armstrong, ordained about 1823. The roof was 
renewed during his incumbency, and an additional gallery built, 
increasing the accommodation to 350 sittings. The union between 
the Synod of Ulster and the Seceding Body, having been effected 
in 1840, the congregation was transferred from the Presbytery of 
Clogher to that of Omagh. 

Mr. Armstrong, on his death, was succeeded by the Rev. 
Joseph M'Askie, who was ordained on the 10th September, 1850. 

In 1859, the church was enlarged, and an additional gallery 
built in 1861. The church will accommodate 500 persons. In 
1861, the congregation consisted of 280 families, residing in the 
parishes of Clogherny, Termonmaguirk, Errigle-keerogue, Clogher, 
and Drumragh. 

[The Rev. Samuel Cochrane, the present minister, was appointed 
in 1865. A few years ago, a grant for 999 years of a site for a 
manse was made by the author, at a yearly rent of £3 3s.] 

The Sixmilecross congregation was originally connected with 
the Secession, or Associated Synod of Ireland, and had for its 
first stated minister (before 1776), the Rev. James Dickson, 
afterwards minister of Sandholes. The congregation met for 

* This is taken from the counterpart of the lease, and not from Dr. Dixon's 
paper. 



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worship first in the house of Mr. Peebles, of Beragh Cornmill. 
Between 1786 and 1790, they built a meeting-house in Sixmile- 
cross, towards which the vestry of the parish of Termonmaguirk 
voted £10, on the 5th June, 1786. This was a thatched house, 
with an earthen floor, and large turf sods for seats. 

The Rev. Lewis Brown, who had on 8th January, 1788, been 
ordained in the Seceding congregation, in Moss-lane, Dublin, and 
had laboured in that city, became in 1791, or rather later, Mr. 
Dickson's successor at Sixmilecross. Whilst at the latter place, 
he also officiated in (1) Glendavagh, now Bally magrane, parish of 
Carnteel ; (2) Drumlegagh, now known as Second Ardstraw ; (3) 
Glenhoy or Longridge, parish of Clogher ; and (4) Aughentain, 
parish of Clogher. After his removal to Sandholes, each of these 
preaching stations obtained separate ministers. 

After an active ministry of about forty-five years, Mr. Brown 
became superannuated. The congregation could not, for some 
time, agree upon the choice of a minister, but at last the Rev. 
Win, Stewart Hazlett was appointed assistant and successor to Mr. 
Brown. Having received a call from the congregation of Second 
Strabane, Mr. Hazlett was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas H. 
Junk, the present minister, who was ordained May 1st, 1845. 

Mr. Hazlett died in the same year, at Strabane. Mr. Brown 
died in 1851, aged 91, having been for several years Father of 
the General Assembly. 

The present meeting-house was built in 1846, at a cost of 
over .£600. There is pew accommodation for about 350 persons. 
The congregation in 1861 consisted of 110 families. 

[A new manse has been erected of late years, on a site near 
the meeting-house, for which a 999 years' lease has been granted 
by the author at a yearly rent of £1 10s.] 

The meeting-house, at Seskinore, was built in 1827. When 
the congregation was first formed it consisted of fifty families. 
The Rev. R. Graham was the first minister. He was succeeded 
in 1852 by the Rev. Joseph Smith. During his ministry the 
church was nearly entirely rebuilt and enlarged to accommodate 
300 persons. There are 150 families in connexion. 

During the time of the penal laws, which were repealed between 
1788 and 1829, the Roman Catholics were not allowed to erect 
any buildings for public worship. In the Roman Catholic Church, 
Termonmagmrk was divided into two parishes, viz., Termonma- 
guirk and Ballintacken, — or as it is now called, Beragh. The 
congregations met to worship at altars in the open air. One such 
altar was still in 1861 in use at Altamuskan, in the neighbouring 
parish of Errigle-keerogue. These stations still retain the names 
of Altar Field, or Mass Hill, or their Irish equivalents. There 
were two in the lower part of Clogherny-Slave, one at Carrick- 
niore, another at Drumdufi', and probably others. It was equally 
illegal to celebrate mass at these stations, as in a building, but it 
was usually not taken notice of by the authorities. When, 
however, a gentleman residing near Clogherny-Slave became, 



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some generations ago, a magistrate, it is said that the stations 
there, in consequence of their proximity to his residence, were 
discontinued. 

The first chapel in Carrickmore was built about 1786, when a 
sum of £10 was voted by the Vestry of Termonmaguirk for the 
purpose. A large new chapel was built about 1846. The chapel 
at Loughmacrory was built in 1833, that at Creggan, a year or 
two after. These three chapels are in the Roman Catholic parish 
of Termonmaguirk. 

The chapel at Beragh was commenced in the first year of the 
present century. It has been repaired and enlarged at several 
periods since. | Of late years some large schools have been built 
adjoining it, which are under the National Board. The burial- 
ground has also had an addition made to it, to be used if required, 
under the same grant as the site of the schools.] The chapel of 
1839 was built in 1839, to replace the altar station, which until 
that time had stood in the same townland. As long ago as 1802, 
a sum of £10 was voted by the Vestry of Termonmaguirk, 
" towards building a Mass house, towards the Drumduff end of 
this parish, to be paid to the Bight Honorable Attorney-General's 
(Sir John Stewart) hands to be applied for said purpose." 

The chapel at Seskinore was originally a dwelling-house in the 
village, which was purchased by the congregation in 1839, and 
immediately afterwards enlarged and fitted up as a place of 
public worship. The last three chapels are in the Boman 
Catholic parish of Beragh. 

The population of Termonmaguirk, was as follows : — 

In 1780.— Housekeepers, B.C., 414; Presbyterian, 58, E.C.,* 
52. 

In 1808.— Families, E.C., 110. 

In 1810-1818 (exact date uncertain). — Families, B.C., 1,123; 
Presbyterian and other Protestant Dissenters, 185 ; E.C., 145. 

In 1832.— Individuals, E.C, 1,595 or 310 families. 

In 1861. — Families (including all the Cooley district lying in 
other parishes), EC, 346. 

In the thirty years ending 1861, the population had been nearly 
stationary. In the preceding fifty, it had increased sixfold. 

The total number of E.C children baptized in the 30 years 
ending 1861, were— boys, 521; girls, 499; total, 1,020. The 
burials were only 57 men and 67 women ; total, 124. 

This great disproportion between baptisms and burials must have 
been caused by emigration ; more men, moreover, emigrating than 
women. 

The number of marriages in the parish church increased 
greatly after the appointment of the Bev. S. Alexander as 
Deputy Surrogate, and the consequent facility of obtaining 
licenses. Many Church Protestants used previously to be married 
in the Presbyterian meeting-house. 

* Established Church. 




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335 
APPENDIX N. 

The Lord Primate of Ireland, himself the great-grandson 
of Lady Beresford's son Lord Viscount Tyrone, has enclosed 
in the following letter a correct version of the Beresford 
Ghost Story, which is subjoined. 

May 25, 1881. 
60 Princes-gate. 
My dear Lord, 

I send you from memory a sketch of the Beresford Ghost 
Story. It may be sufficient for your purpose, but if you would 
like a much more complete account I can get it for you. There 
were so many erroneous accounts of it some ten or twelve years 
ago that I borrowed all the manuscripts I knew of, and collated 
them with a copy I possess of Lady Betty Cobbe's original, copied in 
1795, during Lady Betty's life, and made what I believe to be 
the most correct account extant. 

If you would like to see it I will send Dr. Reeves my key to 
get it at Armagh, and send it here ; but the enclosed may be suffi- 
cient for your purpose. 

Most truly yours, 

M. G. Armagh. 

Nichola Sophia Hamilton was granddaughter of Archibald 
Hamilton, Archbishop of Cashell, who made his escape to Sweden 
in 1641, and daughter of his son Hugh Hamilton, created Baron 
Glenawley on his return to his estates in Ireland in the reign of 
Charles II. Lord Glenawley had a son and two daughters. The 
eldest was married to Sir John Magill, of Gill Hall, and the 
younger to Sir Tristram Beresford, of Coleraine. In early youth 
the younger, Nichola Sophia, had been brought up with John Le 
Poer Lord Decies, elder son of Richard Earl of Tyrone, who was 
sent to the Tower with Magillecuddy of the Reeks and Lord 
Clancarty for harbouring the King's enemies, and died there in 
1691. Their instructor was a confirmed Deist, and induced both 
his pupils to adopt his principles ; and it appeared that they made 
a mutual promise that whoever died first should appear to the 
other and confirm or deny the truth of revealed religion. In the 
month of October, 1693, Lady Beresford and her husband were 
on a visit at Gill Hall with her brother-in-law, Sir John Magill. 
At this time they had been married for some years, had several 
daughters, but no son. During these visits Lady Beresford came 
down to breakfast late, in a very agitated state, with a black 
ribband tied round her wrist. When Sir Tristram spoke to her 
she implored him to ask no questions ; she could tell him nothing 
but that in the next year he would be father of a son, and that 
the post would bring him tidings of John Lord Tyrone's death. 
A letter with a black seal very shortly arrived saying Lord 
Tyrone had died in Dublin on the preceding Saturday. In 1694 
an only son was born, and in 1701 Sir Tristram died. 



336 

In the mean time Lord Glenawley and his only son had died, 
and his estates were divided equally between his two daughters. 
They both outlived their husbands. Lady Magill married secondly 
Lord Dungannon, and thirdly the Hon. Mark Bertie, and only 
outlived her third marriage by a few months. Nichola Sophia lived 
in great seclusion for some years, and only visited at one house in 
Coleraine, that of a Mr. Jackson, who was a cousin of her late 
husband. He had married a Miss Gorges, a daughter of a gentleman 
of property in the co. Meath, whose brother, an officer in the army 
and subsequently a general, happened to pay his sister a visit. 
He became enamoured of the young widow, or her large fortune, 
and finally became her husband. He is represented to have been 
a man of profligate habits, and they lived apart for some time. 
She had a house in Dublin, and in 1713 she asked a party to dine 
with her to celebrate her forty-eighth birthday ; among them was 
an old clergyman who had christened her. He was the first 
arrival, and she told him she was just forty-eight that day. " No," 
said he, "you are only forty-seven; you were born in 1666." She 
grew deadly pale. " Are you sure, : ' she said. " Certain," he 
said. " You have then " she replied, " signed my death-watTant. 
I have only a few hours to live." She retired to her room, sent 
for her son Sir Marcus, for her daughter Lady Riverston, and, I 
believe, Henry, Archbishop of Dublin. She then told the story 
for the first time of Lord Tyrone appearing to her, telling her of 
his death ; that she would have a son who would marry his 
brother's daughter, and that she would make a most unfortunate 
marriage, and die on her forty-seventh birthday. He touched her 
wrist to prove his appearance was real, and the flesh and sinews 
shrank, on which she always wore a black ribband. She was 
buried in Lord Cork's vault, under the Communion table in St. 
Patrick's Cathedral. General Gorges married soon after her 
death Dorothy Stopford Dowager Countess of Meath, whom Swift 
called " that owl Countess Doll." 

Such is the story as it was recorded by her granddaughter Lady 
Betty Cobbe, who had it from Lady Riverston her aunt, and 
perhaps from her father, who was created Earl of Tyrone. There 
are several manuscripts existing, all supposed to be copies of Lady 
Betty's original ; but abounding with mistakes in dates and names, 
probably from filling up blanks Lady Betty left, by guesswork. 

APPENDIX 0. 

LOWRY ENTRIES. 

The following entries are taken from a small Bible, 
published in London, and "printed by John Field, one of 
His Highness's Printers, 1658." On a blank page near the 
end is written : — 

This Book was given by Villame Sinclar to 
Anna Sinclare, 
In the year 1691, 

ROBER LOWRY. 



337 

The entries which follow are in the handwriting of Robert 
Lowry the elder, the husband of Anna Sinclair. 

John Lowry was born the 22nd February, 1699, at 5 o'clock in 
the morning, being Thursday. 

Mary Lowry was born on Tuesday, the 22nd of Aprill, 1701, 
at twelve o'clock at night. 

Robert Lowry was borne the third day of Feby., 1702,* being 
Wednesday, at 12 o'cloke at night. 

Anna Lowry was borne ye 11th day of June, 1704, about 3 a 
clock in the morning, being Sunday. 

Galbraith Lowry was borne the 11th day of Jully, about five 
a cloke in the morning, being Thursday, and in the yeare 1706. 

Eliz Lowry was borne on Thursday the 29th Jully, 1708, about 
12 a cloke on the said day. 

James Lowry was borne on Friday, the sixth day Jully, 1711, 
about eight a clock at night. 

Isabella Lowry was borne on the 19th day of March, 1712, 
about 4 a clocke in ye afternoon. 

Then follows, in Galbraith Lowry 's handwriting : — 

My mother died of a decay, at Fintonagh, 9er 17th, 1723 ; 
buried at Callidon. 

My father died at home, Aghenis, January 29th, 1729,t of a 
dropsie ; buried at Callidon. 

I was married at Castle Cool : ye 26th of July, 1733. 

Robert Lowry was born on Monday, ye 19th of August, 1734, 
in Caple Street. Dublin. 

My son John was born at Aghenis, tuesday ye 23 : of Septem- 
ber, 1735. 

Sarah Lowry was born in Aghenis, Wednesday : 17 : of May, 1738. 

Armar Lowry born att Aghenis : on Monday ye : 7th : of 
Aprill: 1740. 

Anna : Lowry born at Aghenis : 24th : of June : 1742. 

Sarah Corry Lowry born 8er, 1745. 

Mary Lowry born July ye : 2nd : 1748, 

At the other end of the book are found the following 
entries. 

In Robert Lowry the elder's, writing : — 

Eliz. Lowry dyed on Tuesday the 6th day of September, 1 709, 
about nine a cloke in the morning. 

In Galbraith Lowry's writing : — 

Sarah Lowry dyed May ye : 7th : 1739 ; buried at Callidon. 

Robert Lowry died in Dublin, buried at St. Mary's. 

Sarah Corry Lowry dyed in March, 1746 ; buried in Callidon. 

John Lowry dyed at Castle Coole, in 1 752 ; buried at Derrevolan. 

In Armar Lowry Corry's writing : — 
My father dyed at Ahenis, December 28th, 1769. 
Armar Lowry was marryed at Mount Juliet, October the 8th, 
1771. 

* 1702-3. t 1720-30, 



338 

APPENDIX P. 

No. I. — Rent- Roll from May, 1725, to November, 1729, inclusive, 

(Oldest Rent-Roil in Lord Belmore's possession. Robert 

Lowry then owner.) 



i earn 


/ Kent. 






(From Nov., 










1726.) 






£ 


s. 


d. 


£ S. 


d. 


1 Aghaphad, 


10 


12 


6 


15 





2 Bawn Sessiah, 


6 








6 





3 Cavanakiran, Upper, . 


16 


14 


6 


27 10 





4 „ Lower, . 


4 


12 


3 


7 





5 Cavanacaw, and one Sessiah 












of Killea, 


20 


10 





28 







and 2 muttona. 






6 Corraneny, Upper, 


8 








11 10 





7 „ Lower, 


7 


15 





12 





8 Corecrure, . 


15 


15 





23 





9 Derryhaish, 


7 


10 





7 10 





10 Gortnegarn, Upper, 


9 








13 10 





11 ,, Lower, 


7 


15 





12 





12 Gortnedara, and one Sessiah 


i 










of Derrihaish, 


15 


5 





21 





13 Gortscrehin, Upper, 


13 


10 





16 





14 „ Lower, 


14 








16 





15 Lurgneddan, 


10 








12 





16 The eighth part of Lurgned 












dan and Mill, . 


10 








10 





17 Munidrido, 


14 


10 





20 





18 Mem ore, Feagh, and Trustan 


, 22 








32 





19 Tondregee, . 


10 


15 





10 15 





20 Tornebarson, 


10 








12 10 







£234 


4 


3 £313 5 





No. I. — Continued. — Names c 


f Townlands in incom 


plete Rent- 


Roll (following preceding, no 


rentals 


or 


payments 


entered 


— 


merely the names). 












1-5 Aghenis. 


" 


16, 17 Edenafogra. 




6 Arvallee. 




18 


Fallaghern. 




7 Aghagallan. 




19 


Galboly. 






*8 Beagh. 




20 


Killimonan. 




9 Campsy. 




21 


Killeoivin. 




10,11 Cravanagh (upper and 




22 


Killadroy. 




lower). 




*23 


Legacori 


7- 




1 2 Craney. 




*24 


Letfern. 






1 3 Cornabrackan. 




25 


Lisacoppan. 




14 Edenderrv. 




26 


Lisanedan. 




15 Edenderry and Mill. 




*27 


Mulliogh, 





* These are the only ones now in Lord Belmore's possession. Mulliogh or 
Moylagh is only a small head rent. 



339 



No. TL— First Part, Indexed. 

Rent-Roil from May, 1732 to various dates down to May, 1742. 

(Second Rent-Roll in Lord Belmore's possession. Galbraith 
Lowry, then owner, endorsed by him, as follows : — " Rent-book 
soon after my father's death, worthy my son's looking into how 
the lands then paid.") 





£ 


s. 


d. 


1-5 Aghenis(5 subdenominations), 


40 


13 





6 Aghagallon, 


19 





A* £36, A £32 


7 Arvallee, .... 


30 








8, 9 Beagh (Maguire and Moor), 


26 


18 


6 


10 Cornamucklogh (3 subd.), . 


39 


10 





11 Crany, .... 


16 


10 





1 2, 1 3 Creafnagh (upper and lower), 


30 








14 Campsey, .... 


33 








15 Cornebracken, 


6 


6 


10 A £10. 


16 Drummin, .... 


8 








17 Edinderry, 


28 








18 Edenderry and Mill, . 


26 








19 Edinafogra (2 subd.), . 


15 


10 


Of 


20 Fallaghern, 


10 


10 





21, 22 Garvaghey (upper and lower), 


16 








23 Gallbolly, .... 


10 





^£19. 


24 Killadroy (Danl. Reed), 


21 


2 





25 Killegivan, 


50 








26 Killemonan (2 subd.), 


23 


10 





27, 28 Legacurry (2 subd.), Reed 








and Craford), . 


43 








29 Lisacopin (Love, afterwards 








Harvey), 


12 








30 Leightfern (Delop)., . 


36 








31 Lisaneddin, 


27 








32 Mullogh (Reed), 


8 








33 Racarson, .... 


20 


10 





34 Rakeeran Beg, . 


15 


10 


iJJ £13 15s. 


35, 36 Tullecleenagh (2 subd.), 


20 





ft £24. 


37 Tattemulmony, . 


20 








38 Tatte Cor, . 


33 


10 





No. II. — Second Part, 


not Indexed. 


Rent-Roll in continuation of preceeding, but not indexed or 


numbered 









[The first ten folios following No. 38 of first part contain the 
rent accounts of the first five of the following townlands, from 
May, 1733, to May, 1736, inclusive. As these occupy only a few 

* ^ means May, 1735 

t On slip pinned to page, " he must goe to what Mill I please." 

X ^ means November, 1736. 



340 



lines, the remainder of the first page and the reverse of each folio 
is occupied with the accounts of the next following five, from 
March, 1736, to various dates, down to 1744 and 1746. The first 
four townlands are in Carnteel, the fifth is not known to me.* Of 
the second five, the first three are in Killyman, the fourth is 
unknown, the fifth is in Clonfeacle.] 



Yearly Rent. 



£ 
39 13 



31 

17 
9 



Belderagh (3 sub-denominations), 
Branny (2 do.), 

Rousky (3 do.), 

Plaister, ..... 

Drumnim, .... 



Corr, (2 sub-denominations), 

Bovain, .... 

Drummard, 

Derreboy, 

Cadin (4 sub-denominations), 



Shannera (3 sub-denominations), Nov. 37, to May 42, 
Corlaghdargan, . . . Nov. 35, to May 39, 
Minegar, .... Nov. 35, to May 42, 
Corvally (Corbally), . . May 36, to May 39, 



Glengeen, .... 

Rahamney(5 sub-denomina- j 
tions) (Rahony). | 

Aghadara, 

Drumart, .... 



d. 









£104 19 





£ s. 


d. 


37 





2 14 


4 


12 13 


9 


6 10 





77 6 


3 


.£136 4 


4t 



Yearly Rent. 



£ 
71 
20 
10 
30 



Nov. 35, to Nov. 41, 

Nov. 35, and Mar. 
37, to Nov. 41. 

Nov. 35, to Nov. 41, 
Nov. 35, to May 42, 



15 







[20 10 

raised Nov. 
25 

[47 5 0] 

raised 11/39. 

68 

25 
[5 2 6] 

raised 5/41. 

6 3 



Drummarat, . . . Nov. 35, to May 40, 8 10 

[The first seven of above townlands are in Dromore. The two 
last are unknown. In the case of the first eight, the last gale, 
viz., the gale due November, 1741, was in almost every instance 
paid by Mr. Eccles. He also paid in the case of several of the 
townlands in the first part of this Roll.] 
Drumespel. Nov. 36, to May 46. 

* The Rev. Dr. Dixon. 

f I cannot trace how these ten townlands passed out of the family. 



341 



APPENDIX Q. 

No. I. — Fynagh and Rarone. James Galbraith to Armar Lowry 
Cony, Esq., May and November Rents, 1777. 

(This appears to be a half-yearly account of rents payable, some 
in May and some in November.) 

£ s. d. 



1-2 


Aney, 


3 


Armstrong's par. 


4-10 


Beragh, 


11 


Bencran, 


12-14 


Ballentrain, 


15 


Brackey, 


16 


Ballyhallaghan, . 


17-19 


Corr, .... 


20-24 


Cammon, 


25-26 


Collesker, . 


27 


Cavanreagh, 


28 


Customs, 


29 


Coolv (Rev. James Low 


30-31 


Cullagh. . 


32-35 


Dervaghroy, 


36 


Buggery, . 


37-38 


Dreenan, 


39-41 


Derore, 


42-44 


Deroran, 


45-51 


DrumdufF, . 


52-53 


Drumlester, 


54 


Gorteclare, . 


55 


Killcam, 


56-57 


Laragh, 


58-59 


Lisboy, 


60 


Liskincon, . 


61-62 


Mallinacarrow, . 


63 


Osnagh, 


64 


Redargan, . 


65 


Roscavey, . 


66 


Raw, .... 


67 


Do., . 


68 


Renally, 


69 


Rosnacart . 


70-81 


Remackan, . 


82-91 


Sixmilecross, 


92 


Tattekeeran (J. Linsay) 


93 


Tullyherm, . 


94-95 


Tenragee, . 



35 

1 


17 

18 


1| 



33 


6 


10i 


11 


10 





53 


14 





3 


6 


8 





7 





37 


8 


6 


52 


7 


3 


12 


9 





15 


4 





5 








14 








14 


9 





51 


1 





12 


3 





9 


10 





46 


15 





42 


6 





57 


2 


6 


31 

8 


13 
5 





10 


5 





13 


9 





36 


5 





7 


8 





27 
20 


10 
19 





20 


10 





5 








10 


18 





10 


18 





1 


16 


8 


2 


15 





75 


18 


Hi 


38 
31 


14 
10 


34 



1 


16 


8 


21 


10 






[Among the credits appears, " By Jno. Tyrrell for last Sep. 
Rent Man r Fana per R., £22 Is. 2c/."] 



342 



fro. II. — Samuel Galbraith to Armar Lowry Corry, Esq., for 
May and November Rents, 1777. 

£ s. d. 



1-2 


Arvalee, 






• 41 4 7| 


3 


Aghagallon (W. Youn 


g, &c), 


. 18 


4-14 


Aughadarran, 




. 145 4 11 


15-19 


Beagh (S. Galbraith, p 


t.) 




. 53 16 5J 


20 


Cullow (S. Galbraith), 






. 15 


21-23 


Curloughdergon, . 






. 55 14 9 


24-30 


Corvally, 






. 76 


31 


Carrickamulkin . 






5 15 


32-34 


Cornamuckla, 






. 36 11 101 


35-38 


Cranny, 






. 31 1 5 


39 


Cornabrackon, 






7 14 4£ 


40 


Campsey. . 






. 16 10 


41-43 


Crevannagh, 






. 53 4 


44 


Dressog, &c, 






. 18 6 


45 


Dernascur Mill, . 






5 


46 


Drumsheal, 






. 20 


47 


Drumlish. . 






5 8 


48 


Dunnaree, . 






10 


49-50 


Drumscraw, 






13 15 


51 


Drummuny, 






9 16 6 


52-53 


Drumeret, . 






27 


54 


Divirny (A. Harvey), 






20 16 


55-48 


Esker, 






40 8 


59-60 


Edenafogra, 






22 12 


61-62 


Eddendeny, 






50 10 


63 


Fallaghern, 






11 4 6 


64 


Grinnon, 






17 6 


65-68 


Glangeen, . 






32 


69-72 


Garvaghey, 






42 71 


73 


Galbollv, . 






14 1 6 


74 


D° the Parck, 






30 10 01 


75-76 


Killymoonan, 






13 16 8" 


77-82 


Killadroy (Irvin, &c, Reed, &c, 




Crumley, Meenan, Cavenagh, 




Anderson), . . . . 54 19 6 


83 


Legfrashey, 




6 16 6 


84-86 


Lisanedon, .... 




41 4 6 


87 


Lightfern (Dunlap), . 




19 5 


88 


Lissacoppal (Buchanan), 




32 14 1 


89-93 


Legacurry, .... 




35 1 3 


94 


Moylough (Danl. Dunlap), . 




4 


95 


Meenagar, . . . 




5 4 6 


96-103 


Rahaving, .... 




73 6 8 


104 


Rakeeranbeg, 




15 5 


05-106 


Racarson, . 






24 16 



343 

No. II. — continued. 

£ s. d. 

107-109 Tullycleenagh, . . . . 22 15 

110 Tattymulmoney, . . . 10 

111 Tattykeel, 4 15 

112-113 Tattycorr, 42 10 

Among the credits appear — £ s. d. 

To John Tyrrell for Sept. rent, 1777, of manor Haistons,* 2 110 
To do. do. ofSirAudlyMer- 

vyn's land, . . . . .524 

Also by my sallery ending for Nov. rents, 1777, . 20 

Also to seven gallons of Wisco, Co. and Par cess for 

Woods' farm, . . . . . 1 13 11£ 

* Should be Hastings. 



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350 



APPENDIX S. 

A List of the Denominations in the Manor or reputed Manor 
of Inseloghgease, in the County of Fermanagh, taken from a 
copy of the Patent in favour of Captain Corry, 1694. 



Denominations. 


Containing by 


Denominations. 


Containing by 




estimation. 




estimation. 


Tullyweele, 


60 


acres. 


Killecullon ( re 






Creive, 


120 


>> 


peated.* 


60 


acres. 


Tullyatcher, 


60 


)■> 


Leunessurry, 


30 


55 


Leame and Edun 


- 




Cull ins, 


60 


55 


bane. 


120 


>> 


Tateneweyre, 


30 


55 


Killycramph, 


60 


55 


Dnimachan, 


60 


)> 


Clarenagh, 


30 


1> 


Argroghan, 


30 


5) 


Carrenagiltragh 


120 


55 


Coolecrannagh, 


60 


55 


Doone, 


120 


55 


Tatenecloash, 


30 


55 


Beagh, 


30 


» 


Lislalyvcrane, 


30 


55 


Edinmores, 


120 


55 








Tilleneclogg, 


30 


55 




1,890 




Timpoe, . 


60 


)i 








Emroe, 


120 


>> 


All in the Barony 




Glentilton, 


30 


55 


of Tirkennedy 






Letterbayly, 


60 


55 


Also in the 




Tonyglascon, 


60 


55 


Barony of 




Glangath, 


60 


55 


Glenawley — 






Glangreiffin, 


120 


55 


Beagh, 


15 




Brogher, . 


60 


55 








Killecullon, 


60 


55 




1,905 






A 


PPETs 


fDIX T. 






The following 


y memorand 


a concerning the 


parish of 



Derryvullen have been supplied by the Dean of Armagh 

In the Ancient Ecclesiastical Taxation of the Diocese of Clogher, 
circ. 1302, we find this parish in the Deanery of Logherny. 

" Ecclesia de Deyridmelan — iij. marc. — decima iiij. sol." that is, 
3 marks the annual valuation, and the tenth of that, four shillings. 

Observe the form of the name, in which the initial D is 
attracted from the Latin de, leaving Eyiidmelan or Yridmelan 
as the real name. 

In the same manner, this record, in the name Devidbrogosa 
(now Derrybrusk) borrows the D from the preceding preposition, 
so that Eridbrogosa is the real name. 



If Killecullon was repeated by mistake the acreage granted would be 1,845 acres. 



351 

Now this is quite correct in both cases, because the old form of 
Derryvullan is CCiyteach-ITIaolain, and of Derrybrusk, CGjieoxh- 
b^xof^a, " The point or promontory of Maolan," and " the point or 
promontory of Brosga." 

The name Aireach Maolain is found twice in the Annals of the 
Four Masters ; and Aireach Brosga six times. And Doctor 
O'Donovan, in commenting on the former name, at the year 1441, 
writes : "It is curious to observe that the word Aireach is 
Anglicised Berry in the county of Fermanagh, while in the county 
of Mayo it becomes Errew" — Four Masters, Vol., iv, p. 923. 

The form Eyridmelan in the Taxation, fairly represented the 
Irish CCiiii'o-maelaiTi. 

At the year 1420, the Annals of Ulster record the death of 
Math a O'Banain the erenach of Darie Mhaolain (Derryvullan), 
on the 8th of September. 

At the year 1441, the Four Masters record the death of 
" Murtough son of Cathal More MacManus, Archdeacon of 
Clogher, and Parson of Airech Maolain, a select ecclesiastic." 
And the Annals of Ulster give the 18th of February, as the day 
on which he died. 

Again, at 1447, they record the death of Owen son of Petras, 
who was son of Saerdalach O'Breislein, chief Brehon of Fermanagh, 
and high Erenach of Aireach-Maelain." 

At 1484, the Annals of Ulster mention Aire-Maelain, eaglais 
Tigemaigh, " Aire-maelain, the church of Tigernach. 

The patron saint of the church was St. Tighernach, whose day 
in the Calendar is the 4th of April. His principal church was 
Clones, and the ancient chapel of Kiltierney in the parish of 
Magheraculmoney (Ord. Surv. s. 6), derived its name of Cill- 
Tighernaigh from him. Harris, in his edition of Ware's Bishops 
(p. 177), writes of him. — "St Tighernach fixed his see in the 
church of Cluain ; and from thence the Irish Annals call him 
Bishop of Cluanois, commonly Clunes. This church of Clunes is 
one of the four principal churches of the diocese of Clogher, in 
which, as also in the Church of Derimoailain, the memory of 
Tigernach is held in great veneration." A full account of this 
Saint is to be found in Shirley's History of the County of 
Monaghan, pp. 545-549. 

The original parish of Derryvullen was of great extent and 
consisted of detached portions. It included Derryvullen proper, 
where the old mother church stood, giving name to the townland 
of same name in the barony of Tirkennedy (Ord. Surv. s. 27). 
This portion comprehended 8,524 acres. A still larger portion 
lay in the barony of Lurg to the north, to which, on account of 
the Plantation Glebe, which was in it, the stated residence of the 
Rectors, was attracted. This portion comprehended 12,471 acres. 
The present parish of Magheracross was formerly a chapelry and 
portion of Derryvullen. It contains 9,933 acres in the barony of 
Tirkennedy, 170 in Lurg, and the two townlands of Roscor and 



352 

Sheridan • 343 acres insulated by Kilskeery in the county of 
Tyrone. So that Maglieracross was altogether 10,446 acres. 
Added to these was a tract in the present county of Tyrone and 
parish of Kilskeery, called Ballyvarrall, containing 16 denomina- 
tions, as also the territory of the Braad, partly in Dromore, but 
principally in Kilskeery, the sum total being over 36,000 acres. 

Such a parish, having several chapelries under it, was in old 
times known by the name of a Plebania, as is fully explained in 
Reeves's Ecclesiastical Antiquities, pp. 208, 209. And we find 
the term so applied to it in the ancient Registers of Armagh. 
Thus, July 20th 1428, Primate Swayne grants to the Abbot of the 
B. M. of Lisgavail (Lisgoole), Dionysius M'Gillachosgly, and 
^Eneas O'Carbry, Canon of Clogher, a letter of protection in favour 
of Maurice MacManus, Rector or Plebanus of the parish of Dare- 
maelan, against Arthur Bishop of Clogher (Reg. Swayne, fol. 46a) ; 
and again, in like terms, at Aug. 28, 1435. (lb. fol. 139a). 

In the Eccleciastical Inquisition of 1609, the following parti- 
culars of this parish were found : 

" The parish of Dirrimoyllan, lately annexed to the half barony 
of Tircannada, containing in toto 8 ballibetaghes, and 1 quarter and 
half of the new measure of the said county, viz., the half barony 
of Coolm'kernan; containing three ballibetaghes and three quarters ; 
and one ballibetagh and three quarters in Farrenariaght, within 
the half barony of Cuyle ; and one other ballibetagh of Ballyvarrall, 
adjoining to Farrenariaght : the half ballibetagh of Ballihanulty, 
the four quarter and half of Derrimoillan, one quarter of Caricke, 
the half quarter of Enishmore. 

"And that over and besides the said lands, there are five quarters 
called Brade in the countie of Tyrone, heretofore parcel! of the 
said parish. And that in the said parishe is both a parson and 
viccar collative ; and the whole tithes of the said parish (except 
the tithes of Farrenariaght and Ballivarrall) are paid in kinde, 
and the parish church thereof repaired in such manner as the 
tithes are paid and the church repaired in the said parish of 
Maghericoolemanny ; and that the said parson and viccar pay 
yearly proxies to the said bishop of Clogher, viz., the parson Ss. 
and the vicar 4s. 

"And the said jurors also say upon their oaths that there is in the 
said parish of Derrinioyllan, one chappie called Magherinecrosse 
in Farrenerioght, with two small tates of land, the duoghasa 
whereof paying thereout yearly unto the said Bishop of Clogher 
Ss. 4:d. f per annum ; and that there is a vicar endowed with cure 
of souls; and that the one fourth part of the tithes of Ballivarroll and 
Farrenarioght aforesaid are paid to the said viccar, another fourth 
part to the said bishop of Clogher, and thother two fourth parts 
to the parson of Derrimoyllan aforesaid ; and that the Bishop's 
proxies out of the said chappie is 2 shillings per annum. 

" And the said jurors do, upon there oathes further say and 
present that the half barony of Coolem'kernan is part of the 



353 

parish of Derrynioylan in the half barony of Tircahnada ; and that 
the five tates of land of old measure ensuing, viz., the tate of 
Bonanebber, the tate of Tullagh and Tohill, the tate of Killen- 
cloghan, the tate of Dromacklawna, the half tate of Ardiriry, and 
the half tate of Ardmevile, lying in the said half barony of 
Coolnrkernan, are parcell of the possessions of the late dissolved 
priory of Collidea. 

In the King's Books (1617), Derryvullan is thus rated, " R. et 
V. de Dirrefaylan,— 131 6s. 8d." 

It was one of the four livings in the county of Fermanagh, 
reserved from episcopal patronage by James I., and granted to 
Trinity College, by his Patent of 29th August, 1610. (Report of 
Dublin. Univ. Commiss., 1878, p. 80 b.) A larger number of 
advowsons in this county had originally been contemplated, for, 
at the end of the " Project for the Division and Plantation of 
Ulster," it was stated by the Commission, " We think it con- 
venient, if it so please his Majesty, that there be six advowsons 
in every county given to the College, three of the best, and three 
of the second value." (Prefixed to Pynnar's Survey in Harris's 
Hibernica.) 

1631. Ajnong grants of Glebes in the diocese of Clogher : — 
To James [Heygate] bishop of Kilfenora, rector of Derrywoylyn, 
in the county of Fermanagh, the lands of Derrileagh, Tirecan- 
nada, Dromyeag and Dromgeeumry, Tullicleigh, and Edringe, in 
the barony of Lurge and Coolem'Kernan. (Cal. Pat. Car. I. , p. 
592.) 

1634. Regal Visitation. — "Collegium — Rector and Vicar de 
Derryvoylan, — Idem Episcopus. Jacobus Heygate, Artium 
Magister, admissus fuit per Ludovicum Ducem Lenox esse 
Capellanum suum domesticum, 22°. Februarii A°. D 1 . 1605. 
Jacobus Rex Anglee &c., per Literas suas patentes gerentes datum 
3°. Julii A , regni sui Anglie, &c. 7°. et Scotiae 42°., dedit et con- 
cessit dicto Jacobo x\rchidiaconatum Cloghorensem necnon 
Vicariam de Calbegs in diocesi Rapotensi, ad suam disposicionem 
pleno jure spectantem. 

Idem Jacobus habuit stallam in choro et vocem in capitulo 
19° Julii 1609. 

Idem Jacobus collatus fuit per Georgium Midensem et Clogh- 
orensem Episcopum ad rectoriam et vicariam de Tredaunagh, et 
rectoriam et vicariam de Derryvoylan, 1 Octob. 1612. 

Idem Jacobus inductus fuit in rectoriam et vicariam de 
Derryvoylan, 10° Aug. 1613. 

Et in rectoriam et vicariam de Tredawnagh 21° April. 1613. 
Idem Episcopus Cloghorensis univit in perpetuum rectoriam et 
vicariam de Chines et rectoriam et vicariam de Clantibred 
Archidiaconatui de Clogher (proviso quod cura animarum &c.) 
10 Matii 1613. 

Idem >Jacobus inductus fuit in vicariam de Chines 5° Martii 
1613. Serenissimus in Christo Piinceps Carolus, per literas 



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patentes gerentes datum 18° Maii anno Regni sui sexto, dedit 
et concessit in perpetuo commende titulo Archidiacouatum sive 
Archidiaconatus dignitatem Cloghorensis, rectoriam et vicariam 
de Derryvoylan, et rectoriam et vicariam de Tredaunagh, prefato 
Jacobo, habendum et teiTendum eidem Jacobo quamdiu Episcopus 
Feneborensis foret." 

This Master James Heygate, M.A., held the following prefer- 
ments : — 

1609. Archdeacon of Clogher. 

1609. Vicar Killybegs. 

1612. R. and V. of Tedavnet. 

1612. R. and V. of Derryvullan. 

1613. R. and V., Clones, | n , . , , 

1613. R. and V. of Clones,} Cor P S of Archdeaconry. 
1630. May 18. Bishop of Kilfenora. 

Charles I. by patent allowed him licence to hold in 
commendam all these except the Vicarage of 
Killybegs. 

In Triennial Visitation, 1661. — Rector and Vicar de Derry- 
voylan vacat. Sequestratur in manus Andrea? Lindesay 6° Mai- 
1661. Clericatus vacat. 

Johannes Montgomery, ^ Guardiani comparuerunt et exhi- 
Edvardus Bampton. ) buerunt presentacionem. 

Triennial Visitation, 1664. — R. V. Ec. Paroch de Derry- 
voyland. Idem Johannes Leslie. Reverendissimus monuit pro- 
videre curatos in tres menses, sub poena suspensionis. 

(John Leslie held this in conjunction with other benefices as 
appears by what follows.) 

Vicaria Ecclesie Paroehialis de Killany. 

Johannes Lesly, Clerk, m.a., appeared and exhibited his letters 
of Deacon's order, granted by John Bishop of Clogher, 7th August, 
1661. 

Also letters of Priest's orders, by the same Bishop, dated 
30th October, 1661. 

Also he exhibited his collation, institution, and induction to 
the Vicarage of Killany, granted by John Bishop of Clogher, 
dated 1st September, 1662. 

He also exhibited his collation, institution, and induction to 
the Rectory of Derrwovlan. granted by John Lord Bishop of 
Clogher, dated 12 May. 1662. Inducted 14th May. 16G2. 

The same also exhibited the union of Derrwovlan and Derry- 
brosk, granted by the Lord Bishop of Clogher, dated September 
11, 1662. 

In 1670, John Leisly was Rector and V. Xabel Armstrong 
and Michael Lindsey Churchwardens. 



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Triennial Visitation, 1679. (Primate Boyle). — Rectoria Inte- 



gra de Derrivolan . 

Valet 60 lib. per ann. 
Ecclesia bene se 
habet. 



Johannes Leshly, s.t.d., Rector ibidem, 
comparuit et exhibuit per Johannem 
Knox procuratorem suum. 

Johannes Moffatt, clericus parochialis, 
non comparuit. 

Andrseas Adams Guardianus comparuit 
et juramento oneratus fuit. 



Rectoria Integra de Derribroske 



Yalet 2 lib. per ann. 
Ecclesia ruinosa. 



Idem Johannes Leshley Rector ibidem. 
Johannes Montgomerie, Guardianus, 
comparuit et exhibuit. 



Rectoria Integra de Killany. [This is in Farney.] 



Valet 20 lib. par ann. 
Ecclesia ruinosa. 



Idem Johannes Leshly. 

Johannes Smith, Curatus ibidem, non 
comparuit. 

Johannes A.ungier, Clericus parochialis 
ibidem, comparuit et exhibuit. 



Triennial Visitation, 1754. — Derryvoylan : — 

Rector and Vicar, Rev. Thomas M'Donnell, d.d. 

Curate, Rev. Alexander Leslie. 

Clerk and Schoolmaster, William Anderson. 

n-u -u j f Henry Henderson. 

Churchwardens, | ^^ ^^ 

Writing to me on September 30, last year (1880), the 
Dean says — 

" Again there is the green (church) land [on the Plantation 
map of 1609, II. 8], with a church marked Nafehie, which is 
neither more nor less than Fyagh with the article 'na' prefixed — 
the Fehie — which is the site of the old church of Derrybrusk. 
But I have failed as yet to appropriate, in same map, the two 
green patches, with their churches, marked Car : narnana and 
Eelamre. One of them is, I am sure, Derryvullen, and the other 
is, I know not what." 

My own firm impression is that Car : narnana is the site 
of Derryvullen church, and Eelamre, of the Abbey of Gola, 
of which I shall speak a little further on. 

The following table of Incumbents of the parish of Derry- 
vullen, whilst the advowson belonged to Trinity College, 
Dublin, was originally prepared by the Dean of Armagh. 
It is copied, amplified, and corrected from the Appendix to 



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the Report of the Dublin University Commission, 1877-8 
(of which I was chairman), for which it was made : — 

Diocese of Clogher. 
14. Denyvullen Rectory, 1610. 





S d, 


. Br: 


§ 6 








«« O "O 


<*- 2 © 






® c "i 


°ls 


° §^ 




Name. 


.2-2 fc 
•S-g 5 


2 £«» 


«S c * 

p gffl 


Observations. 




Q t ~ 


fl = o 






3£ 


^ s 


<% 




John Heygate, 


- 


_ 


1612 


Bishop of Kilfenora, 1630. 


William D i ckenson , 




- 


1638 




Thomas Marshall, 


: 


- 


1639 




Robert All (during Com- 


- 




- 




monwealth). 








Deprived, 1661. 


John Leslie, 


- 


- 


1662 


Instituted on presentation of 
Trinity College, Dublin. 


William Grattan,* 


1697 


- 


1701 


Do. do. (Rector of Cappagh, 
1703). 


John Kearnej T , 


1712 


- 


1719 


Do. do. 


Hon. Charles Caulfeild, . 


- 


- 


1724 


Son of William Viscount Char- 
lemont 


Patrick Delany,t 


1709 


1719 


1729 


Dean of Down, 1744. 


Thos. M'Donnell, 


1737 


- 


1744 


William Meade, 


- 


- 


1763 




Richard Godley, 


- 


- 


1767 




Tohn Stack, 


1784 




1791 




Hugh Nevin, 


- 


- 


- 




George Miller, 


1789 


- 


1804 


Master of Armagh School. 


William Thomas Lett. . 


1847 


■ - 


1849 




John Young Rutledge, . 


1850 


- 


1857 


Rector of Armagh, 1865 ; 








Chancellor of Armagh. 


Richard Verschoyle, 


— 


~ 


1865 ; 



Annuity awarded to Incumbent (under Irish Church Act), 
Compensation (to Trinity College) for loss of advowson, 



£889 

8,194 



5 11 
8 11 



In 1874 the parish was divided by the authority of the 
Diocesan Synod of Clogher into two, viz., Denyvullen 
South (where the site of the mother church is situate), and 
Denyvullen North, or Irvinestown. 

The Rev. Richard Verschoyle retains the title of Rector 
and Vicar of Denyvullen with the Northern parish. 
The following is the list of Incumbents of Denyvullen, 
South :— 



Christopher H anbury, 1874, 



Laurence William Rutledge, 1880, 



Presented by the Lord Pri- 
mate on a lapsed nomination. 
Incumbent of Swan 1 in g- 
barr, 1880. 

Son of the Rev. J. Y. Rut- 
ledge, d.d., above. 



* This mark denotes that the Incumbent held another living simultaneously, 
t Husband of the well-known Mrs. Delany. 



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The site of the old Abbey of Gola is to the S.E. of the 
parish. It is shown on the Plantation Map of 1609, when 
there seems to have been at any rate the walls of an eccle- 
siastical edifice still standing. The site is also marked on 
the Ordnance Map as being in the townland of Gola, parish 
of Derrybrusk, near the new road from the Enniskillen and 
Dublin road to Inismore Island and Belleisle. 

The Dean of Armagh says — 

" Gola was a Dominical cell founded by a Maguire. It is not 
noticed in the Ecclesiastical Inquisition of 1609; but De Burgo, 
in his Hibernia Dominicana, pp. 331-333, has a chapter on it 
under the name Gaula. There is also a very curious article con- 
cerning it in the new edition of Archdall's Monasticuni Hiber- 
nicum, among the religious houses of Fermanagh, under the title 
Gola." 

The walls of Derrybrusk old church are standing. The 
townland of Derrybrusk has been included in the parish of 
Derryvullen since 1857. The church was very small. It 
has a small east window with a Norman arch. It has been 
roofless for a very long time, but the Easter Vestry Meet- 
ings used to be held in the ruins. The parish of Derrybrusk 
was for many years without a church until the late Rev. J. 
G. Porter, of Bellisle and Kilskeery, converted a school- 
house in Derryharney into one, which was consecrated 
by the present Primate. Divine Service was formerly held 
monthly in the Ballyreagh school-house, in a part of the 
parish distant from the old church. 

The following account is supposed to be that of rebuilding 
Derryvullen church. It is extracted from one of Mr. 
Armar's rental and account books — 

The Church. 
1736. 

Paid M'Donagh for timber, 

Paid for pulling down ye old church, 

Paid for 42 poles bought at Mr. Hamilton's 

wood at 2s. kd. per pole, . . . 4 18 

Paid for drawing my timber by whisky,* 

&c., 2 15 

Paid for quarrying and drawing stone and 

raising limestone and turff, . . 15 10 

April ye 20th, 1737. 

Paid ye labourers, . . . . .430 

* In those daj's, and for long afterwards, it was the custom for tenants to find 
for the landlord for so many days in the year, as part of their rent, "duty" 
wheeled carts and " duty " horses. Whisky was given to them probably after the 
day's work. Mr. Armar was at this time living at Castlecoole (it is believed) 
with his brother-in-law, Mr. Corry. 



£ 


s. 


d. 


36 


12 





3 









358 





£ 8. 


d. 


May ye 26th. 






Paid do., 


3 13 


6 


June ye 18th. 






Paid do., 


5 15 





Paid ye stone cutter, who died, . 


5 


5 


Paid Bradin for breaking limestone, . 


4 





Paid for sawing boards at Castle Coole, 


1 17 





Paid for carnage of do. and of put Locks, &c, 


2 





Paid for crooked timber, .... 


5 10 





Paid for timber for door and window cases, 


4 10 





July ye 8th. 






Paid ye labourers, ..... 


7 17 


8 


„ ye 15th. 






Paid Little on account of turff, . 


14 


6 


Paid ye labourers, 


2 12 


3 


August ye 6th. 






Paid for rafters, 


7 10 





Paid Hugh for bringing them home, . 


11 


6 


„ ye 12th. 






Paid ye labourers, ..... 


9 12 


1 


Paid for tiles, ...... 


2 


8 


Paid for nails, ...... 


2 


11 


Paid Graham, ye stone cutter, in full, 


6 





Paid ye sawyer, ..... 


1 5 





Paid for carriage of 328 boards, 


5 16 


2 


Paid for carriage of iron, 200 and J, . 


5 





Paid Little for drawing turff, 


1 17 





Dec. ye 20th. 






Paid ye smith for work, .... 


5 11 





Paid for 7,800 laths at 1U 6 d., and 2,000 






at 15s., ...... 


6 





June, 1738. 






Paid Widow Armstrong her bill for whiskey, 






&C., 


6 


7 


Paid Art. Byrney for cheese, 


8 





Paid ye smith, ...... 


10 


8 


Paid M f Cafery and Little for turff to bum 






lime for plaistering, .... 


13 


10 


Paid Mr. Corry for boards in ye year 1737, 


21 5 





Paid ye sawyers, ..... 


1 2 





Paid for nails, ..... 


10 4 


5 


Dec. ye 20th, 1738. 






Paid Mr. Moutray for 66 poles, 


6 8 





Paid Johnston ye smith, 


13 


H 


Paid Lamb for ye carriage of boards, 


6 4 


6 


Paid for 36 square and ^ of slating at 13 






shillgs. pr. square, .... 


23 14 


6 


Paid ye labourers, 


5 13 


4 






359 



£ s. d. 



. 19 2 
. 10 
. 9 




10 




. 1 10 





263 6 





. 263 6 
. 67 
. 14 
. 16 1 
. 5 
. 24 10 
. 16 





8 






1739, March ye 29th. 

Paid Mr. Oorry for boards, 

Paid for nails, 

Paid for glaising, 
Oct., 1741. 

Paid Swindal for pointing ye roofe, 



(Account continued). 

The expense of ye church. 

Brought over, .... 
Paid Edwd. Keirnan in full for his work, 
Paid for paint, .... 

Paid Edwd. Price for nagging, &c, . 
Paid Downing ye Smith, 
Paid Whitehouse in full of his work, . 
Paid ye masons, .... 

There is nothing beyond the reference to Castle Coole 
and Mr. Corry, to indicate that this account is for Derry- 
vullen Church. But it is evident that that old church had 
been at some time widened, from the fact of the Corry 
vault under it, being partly a well turned plastered arch, 
and partly a badly turned unplastered one. 

About (as is supposed) 1832 the Corry vault was broken 
open, and the operation was probably repeated later. Some 
of the coffins were desecrated, and a quantity of lead stolen. 
One story is that the breaking open of the coffins was done 
with the idea that jewels would be found in them ; another 
that some one wanted to prove Mr. Armar's death ; another 
that the lead was stolen to make bullets for the " Macken 
fight " between the Orangemen and the Roman Catholics. 
When I was in New South Wales, I was one day accom- 
panying H.R.H. the Duke of Edinburgh, at a place on the 
Hunter River, when I heard a man in the crowd call out, 
" Hurrah for Castlecoole !" On inquiry it appeared that this 
man had been engaged in the Macken fight. 

Some time beiore I came of age, Mr. P. Dane, the agent 
of the estate, was informed by an anonymous letter that 
the vault had been broken open. It was supposed then, 
that it had been entered from the outside, and a door was 
put on to it. Some time after I came of age in 1856 or 
1857, 1 had the doorway built up and the entrance filled up. 
So it remained until 1878 when part of the arch at the 
other end of the vault fell in. It was then found, that in 
the first instance at any rate, the vault had been broken 



360 

into, through the floor of the church. This was admittedly 
done with the privity of the sextoness, now long since dead ; 
Her daughter who died lately, subsequently (in her old age) 
told me and another person, as much about it as she thought 
fit. This woman was very unwilling that any one should 
go near the vault, and threw stones at my labourers who 
were sent to repair it. One of the persons who broke into 
the vault is traditionally said to have afterwards gone to 
America, where he was shot at his own door. 

It was found that after the vault had been rifled, pieces 
of branches were placed across the hole in the crown of the 
arch, and the stones and pavement replaced over them. 
This was not observed when the doorway was built up, the 
hole being at the dark end of the vault, and in course of 
time the wood decayed, and the stones fell in, breaking two 
coffins made of oak, which appeared to have been the longest 
there, and not to have been previously disturbed. 

From the number of the coffins, I judge that John Corry 
the elder was not buried in this vault, although I gather from 
his son's will that he was buried in the churchyard. I care- 
fully examined the vault, and came to the conclusion that 
the following persons only had been buried in it, viz. : — 

1. Colonel James Corry, . . ~| in oak coffins, undisturbed 

2. Colonel John Corry, . . j until broken in 1878. 

3. Colonel Leslie Corry, . . 1 Coffins desecrated Both in 

4. Mrs. Sarah Corry, his mother, j one shell. 

f Lead coffin empty, but a 

5. [E. L. C. ] The son of Edmond J piece of lead with an inscrip- 
and Martha Leslie Corry, died \ tion and date as in the text 
11 March, 1743. | (p. 190) found, and apiece 

of wood with initials RLC. 

C Lead coffin, top torn off and 
! stolen. Body when first 

n n i i t\/t j. a seen, some years asro, in 

6. Colonel Margetson Armar, . •{ , J ° ,'. 

very good preservation, 

with a very perfect set of 

teeth 

f Lead coffin, containing only 

] sawdust and dust — torn 

- -««■ A /, T n , open. A small female head, 

Mrs. Armar (Mary Corry), Jjg hair, in the vault, supl 

posed to be hers, placed in 
her husband's coffin. 

I had wooden covers with sides made, and placed over 
the coffins containing Leslie Corry and his mother and 



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Colonel Armar, and possibly the coffin which had contained 
Mrs. Armar's remains, as it was not safe to move some of the 
coffins further j the roof of the vault was properly repaired, 
and the doorway again built and filled up. 

The following is a list of the townlands in the present 
Church of Ireland Parish : — 



1. Carrowmacmea. 

2. Kedagh (part of Castle- 

coole). 

3. Clogktate. 

4. Bally lucas. 

5. CavancaiTagk (part of). 

6. Curragkclare. 

7. Derryclawan. 

8. Militate. 

9. Kilnamaddy. 

10. Bonnybrooke. 

11. Bossy vullan. 

12. Derrymakeen. 

13. Tkomastown. 

14. Carran Little. 

15. Drumcrin. 

16. Glasmullagk. 

17. Killyreagk. 

18. Druincrow. 

19. Tullykarney. 

20. Killygrania. 
21 Ballintarsin. 



22. Derryvore. 

23. Drumard. 

24. Tamlagkt. 

25. Kilsallagk. 
2G. Cultiagk. 

27. Derrybeg. 

28. Cloonevoan. 

29. Mulrocl. 

30. Bracky. 

31. Clogkcor. 

32. Derryvullan. 

33. Killyvannan. 

34. Farnagkt. 

35. Drumcullion. 

36. Druinrainy. 

37. Wkinnigan Glebe. 

38. Do.* 

39. Fyagk. 

40. Coolnaskanton. 

41. Bing. 

42. Derrybrusk. 

43. Tawnyreagk. 



APPENDIX U. 

Ardess Glebe. 

Memo. — Bespectiiig tke Ckurck Lands 1770, Marck 10th, 
Mr. Monck acquaints Mr. A. witk tke B. (Biskop'st) sckeme, 
and adds, wken tkings are ripe for tkis exckange, does not care 
kow soon after yr renewal takes place, if you ckuse it. In 
answer to tkis, Mr. A is supposed to kave taken it for granted, 
yt kis Lordship desired it : of tkis ckarge ke acquits khnself to 
Mr. Monck in tkese words. " If in my letter to you I expressed 
myself, as if kis Lordskip kad desired a renewal, I recant it, and 
ask your pardon. I meant to inform you yt I koped kis Lordskip 
would treat me witk kis usual indulgence, wkick I gratefully feel, 
and wkick I kope I kave not forfeited, and therefore entreated a 
renewal from next May." It is thought that tkis proposal does not 
coincide witk wkat tke Biskop is informed of. That it was a 
surprise upon Mr. A. wko was so far from being ready for 
renewing, yt ke kad not so muck as dreamed of it. 

The Biskop was pleased to renew witk Mr. A. in 1761, 1764, 
* Here is Derrybrusk Glebe House. f Bishop Garnett. 

2b 



362 

1766, 1768, and in this case lie hoped to continue, which was ye 
cause of his interpreting his Lordship's note as deeming it ye 
usual course. Mr. A. thinking ye 200 G-. (guineas) and 15 pds., 
from ye expiration of 10 years perhaps in perpetuity, was too great 
an addition to ye fine demanded, made a proposal to Mr. Monck 
to ye following effect. (See letter of May 26th.) 

Mr. Armar to Mr. Monck. 

April 3rd. 

Since I had the favour of your letter, I have seen the agreement, 
and the tenants of the land of Ardesh, and I think it my duty to 
acquaint the Bishop of Clogher, with what has appeared me 
relative to the intended exchange. 

If in my letter to you, I expressed myself as if his Lordship 
had desired a renewal, I recant and ask your pardon. I meant 
to inform you that I hoped his Lordship would treat me with his 
usual indulgence, which I gratefully feel, and which I hope I have 
not forfeited, and therefore entreated a renewal from next May. 
I have now more reason to pray for it, for it has been bruited in 
the neighbourhood, that his Lordship would not renew with me, 
till the exchange was effected, upon which the tenants have 
demanded double the sum that they would have taken some time 
ago, though their tenure has grown worse. They saw Mr. St. 
George comfortably settled, they despaired of the opportunity of 
imposing upon me ; but since the pains and penalties have been 
blabb'd, they have taken their advantage and cruelly treat me, 
and have [an indistinct interlineation] all which T submit to his 
Lordship's consideration. 

The enclosed state of my case will show you my sufferings, all 
which I submit to his Lordship's consideration, and entreat you 
to acquaint me with his determination, which I will deem an 
addition to many civilities and favours you have conferred upon, 
dear sir, 

Your much obliged and obedient humble Servant. 

" May 26th. 
" Dear Sir, — Agreeable to your desire I enclose the BishopV 
letter directing you to let the Renewal take place in the usual 
course : But if his Lordship has found cause to alter his opinion, 
I submit to his will, and yet sure I am, that when my tenant 
hears, and he will hear, that my renewal will not take place, 
before he gets an exorbitant price for his interest, the intended 
exchange will be delayed : He has already rose from 200 pds. to 
guineas. It is probable that you have my letters upon this sub- 
ject, and therefore I will not trouble you with repetitions : But 
as the Bishop seems so desirous to effect his scheme, and I am 
willing to comply with any reasonable demand he may please to 
make upon me, I have revolved it often, and this day I hit upon, 
what at present appears to me, to be rational and effectual. 
Strike out of my lease the farm of Ardeth, and insert in its place 



363 

the present Glebe, and I will covenant to pay to the Rector, the 
difference that may appear to be at present between them during 
(an indistinct abbreviation) years, or sooner determination which 
may be effected of my tenant's interest. This being done, I will 
take upon me to convince you, that notwithstanding the Inquisi 
tion to which I was not summoned, the See will lose .£15 sterling 
in perpetuity, and that my executors will lose the same for eight 
years, besides the probability of a longer continuance ; This I will 
give up at his Lordship's desire, and will candidly confess that he 
is a good Landlord, and I will have profit enough notwithstand- 
ing this deduction. It may be objected that this scheme may 
delay the Building : but I say not. Mr. St. George is comfortably 
settled, has had his hands deeply in mortar, and I believe would 
not chuse to dirty them soon again : surely some time will be 
allowed to prepare materials, in which my tenant may be pre- 
vailed upon to give up possession of the whole, but surely of as 
much as may be required for carrying out the building. If this, 
or something can't be devised pleasing to his Lordship, be so kind 
as to return my bill upon Mr. Mitchell, and his receipt for thirty 
pds. 

The Bishop has my sincere and warm wishes for his comfort 
and long life, and I am with gratitude and regard, Sir, your 
obliged and obed. servant. 

You have often played with me about renewals to be made by 
my executors. Does it not look something like it at this time ? 

Dear Sir, — Agreeable to yr desire, I enclose yr acknowledge- 
ment of ye receipt of bills from me, amounting to .£583 10s. 6d., 
and tho' I confess I have not got ye value for them yt I expected, 
it is my duty to exonerate you, from any further claim upon 
account of them. 

I am sorry for the trouble you have had, but in my poor 
judgment, if my employer had directed me to let the renewal take 
place, in the usual course, 1 would have acted as you did, knowing 
the course that his lordship had distinguished. I think the ob- 
jection to my scheme will not hold, for in my thinking the bishop 
can make as indefeasable a title to the rector in pursuing it, as he 
can by any other method, or at any other time. What difference 
does it make 1 Is [it] not one and the same ; but enough. 

The above draft is written on the blank leaf of a letter 
endorsed as follows : — 





To MARGETSON A.RMAE 


,, Esq., 










Castle Coole, 


BlCKEE MONCK. 










Enniskillen. 






£ 


s. 


d. 






Adv., 


81 


15 









Glebe, 


71 











10 15 

2b2 



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(Draft). — Mr. Armar to the Bishop of Clogher. 

My Lord, — Far be it from me to enter into disputation with 
your lordship. My character would deservedly suffer, if I should 
at any time attempt it, more especially at this time. To avoid 
giving you any trouble or thought upon the subject of your billet, 
I sent it to Mr. Monck, with due submission to your will, as 
judging you the proper expositor of it. I did not keep a copy of 
it : I was resolved never to think more of it, and I grieved that 
your lordship and others (1). But as a small acquital of Mr. Monck 
and myself, I enclose a short detail of the transactions, and of the 
usual course in which you had trained me, and which was with 
me the foundation of my partial interpretation. Believe me, my 
lord, you have not a tenant, nor is there a man living who would 
not more readily comply with any request you honoured me with. 
I should deem it a command could my fortune afford it. One of 
your tenants, Mr. Kane, is benefitted by the exchange. He had 
notice of the inquisition and attended it ; had that been my case, 
there is a probability that I should have fared as well ; but it is 
strictly an inquisition to me condemned unheard. 

The foregoing memoranda of correspondence are written 
by Mr. Armar, in a very shaky hand. A draft of a letter, 
which I thought was included in these, was written on the 
back, or on the spare leaf, of one from a friend of his, asking 
his sanction to the grant of a public house license at Tan- 
house water, close by the present Derryvullen parsonage, 
for either the herdsman or the son or relation of the herds- 
man of the writer's. If one of the foregoing was the draft 
in question, the part of the letter about the public house 
must have been lost. 



APPENDIX V. 

Beragh Fairs. 

It appears, by an inquisition, taken by virtue of a writ of ad 
quos damnum, issued in pursuance of a warrant, given by John 
Earl of Buckinghamshire, Lord Lieutenant-General and General 
Governor of Ireland, on the petitioD of Armar Lowry Cony, of 
Castlecoole, in the county of Fermanagh, esq., for holding four 
fairs, on the 29th May, August, November, and March respectively 
(or on the 30th if one of those days fell on a Sunday), and a weekly 
market ; that the same would be no hurt to the king or his subjects, 
who held fairs in the neighbourhood. He is therefore granted the 
right to hold the same, with a court of pie powder, with a right to 
take tolls, customs, duties, privileges, and immunities, without 
account to (" us ") the king — paying a yearly quit rent of twenty 
shillings. 

Dated August 12th, 1779. 



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APPENDIX W. 

(From an old Division List of the time.) 

List of the Members of both Houses of the Irish Parliament, 
who voted on the Motion for an Address to His Majesty, 
acceding to the Discussion of a Plan for a Legislative 
Union with Great Britain, on the ever memorable 23rd 
and 25th January, 1799. 

House of Peers. 
Majority in favour of an Union. 

1. The Earl of Clare, Lord Chancellor. 

2. His Grace the Lord Primate. 

3. His Grace the Archbishop of Cashell. 

4. His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam. 

5. The Most Noble Marquis of Waterford. 



6. 


The Earl of Barrymore. 


7. 


Earl of Bective. 


8. 


Earl of Carrick. 


9. 
10. 


Earl of Carysfort. 
Earl of Cork. 


11. 


Earl of Desert. 


12. 
13. 


Earl of Ely. 
Earl of Erne. 


14. 


Earl of Glendore. 


15. 
16. 
17. 


Earl of Londonderry. 
Earl of Mayo. 
Earl of Ormond. 


18. 


Earl of Shannon. 


19. 


Earl of Westmeath. 


20. 


Lord Allen. 


21. 


Lord Bandon. 


22. 
23. 


Lord Bantry. 
Lord Calledon. 


24. 


Lord Carleton. 


25. 
26. 


Lord Cloncurry. 
Lord Donoughmore. 


27. 


Lord Glentworth. 


28. 


Lord Kilwarden. 


29. 
30. 


Lord Longueville. 
Lord Molesworth. 


31. 


Lord Monck. 


32. 


Lord Muskerry. 


33. 


Lord Rossmore. 


34. 
35. 


Lord Tyrawley. 
Lord Wicklow. 


36. 


Lord Yelverton. 


37. 


Bishop of Clogher. 



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38. Bishop of Cloyne. 

39. Bishop of Cork. 

40. Bishop of Elphin. 

41. Bishop of Kildare. 

42. Bishop of Killala. 

43. Bishop of Killaloe. 

44. Bishop of Loughlin and Ferns. 

45. Bishop of Raphoe. 

Minority against an Union. 

1. His Grace the Duke of Leinster. 

2. Earl of Arran. 

3. Earl of Belvidere. 

4. Earl of Bellamont. 

5. Earl of Belmore. 

6. Earl of Charlemont. 

7. Earl of Clanwilliam. 

8. Earl of Enniskillen. 

9. Earl of Granard. 

10. Earl of Kilkenny. 

11. Earl of Lismore. 

12. Earl of Mount Cashell 

1 3. Earl of Mountmorris. 

14. Lord Castlestewart. 

15. Lord Devesci. 

16. Lord Dunsaney. 

17. Lord Kilconnell. 

18. Lord Powerscourt, 

19. Lord Strangford. 

20. Lord Tullamore. 

21. Bishop of Down. 

House of Commons. 
Minority in favour of an Union. 

1. H. Alexander, Londondei'ry, Ordnance, Dublin Castle, and 

since appointed Chairman of Ways and Means. 

2. R. Alexander, Xewtownards. 

3. R. Annesley, Blessington, Commissioner of Revenue. 

4. R. Archdale, Killybeggs, Barrack Board. 

5. W. Bailey, Augher, Captain Tyrone Regiment. 

6. Rt. Hon. John Beresford, County Waterford, Privy Coun- 

cillor both Kingdoms, First Commissioner of the Re- 
venue, and Deputy Governor, County Waterford. 

7. J. Beresford, Coleraine, Pursebearer to the Chancellor. 

S. M. Beresford, Swords, Collector of Excise in Dublin . and 

Colonel 135th Foot, 
9. J. Bingham, Tuam. 

10. J. H. Blake, County Galway, Colonel. Militia. 

11. W. Blakeney, Athenry, Pensioner. 

12. Sir J. Blacquiere, Xewtownards, Privy Councillor, Alnager 

of Ireland, and Commissioner of Pavins: Board. 



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13. Anthony Botet, Tulsk, Barrack Board, and Constable of 

Castlemaine. 

14. J. Boyd, Wexford, Port Surveyor. 

15. Lord Boyle, County Cork. 

16. R. H. Den. Browne, County Mayo, a Privy Councillor, and 

Captain in the County Militia. 

17. Stuart Bruce, Lisburn, Major in the Army, Aide-de-camp 

to the Lord Lieutenant. 

18. G. Burdet, Gowran. 

19. T. Burgh, Clogher, Secretary to the Lords of the Treasury. 

20. Hon. Nat. Burton, Clare County, Colonel Clare Regiment 

Militia. 

21. Hon. J. Butler, Kilkenny. 

22. Lord Castlereagh, Downshire, Chief Secretary of State, 

Privy Councillor, Lord of the Treasury, and Keeper of 
the Privy Signet. 

23. George Cavendish, Cavan, employment under his father. 

24. Sir H. Cavendish, Lismore, Privy Councillor, and Receiver 

General. 

25. B. Chinnery, Bandon Bridge, Lord Shannon's Borough. 

26. Rt. Hon. T. Conolly, County Londonderry, a Privy 

Councillor, Colonel of Militia. 

27. Edward Cooke, Old Leighlin, Under-Secretary in the Civil 

Department, Dublin Castle, and Keeper of the Phoenix 
Park. 

28. C. H. Coote, Queen's County, a Commissioner of Revenue, 

a Captain of Yeoman Cavalry, but since appointed 
Commandant of the Queen's County Militia. 

29. R. Cornwall, Enniscorthy. 

30. Rt. Hon. Isaac Corry, Newry, a Privy Councillor, a Com- 

missioner of Revenue, Chairman of the Ways and Means, 
and Surveyor-General of Lands, but since appointed 
Chancellor of the Exchequer, vice Sir John Parnell 
dismissed. 

31. Sir J. Cotter, Castlemartyr. 

32. R. Cotter, Charleville. 

33. W. A. Crosbie, Trim, Steward of the Household, Dublin 

Castle, Commissioner of Stamps, with a pension for his 
wife. 

34. St. G. Daly, Galway, since appointed Prime Sergeant, vice 

the Right Hon. James Fitzgerald, dismissed. 

35. William Elliot, St. Canice, Secretary at War. 

36. Charles Eustace, Fethard, Governor of Ross Castle, Major- 

General in the Army, and Captain 33rd Foot. 

37. L. Charles Fitzgerald, Ardfert, Captain in the Navy, and 

Muster-master General. 

38. R. U. Fitzgerald, County Cork, Colonel N. Cork Militia. 

39. M. Fitzgerald, County Kerry, Lieut. -Colonel, Kerry 

Regiment. 

40. Right Hon. W. Forward, St. John'stown, a Privy Councillor. 



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41. Sir C. Fortescue, Trim, Ulster King at Arms. 

42. J. Galbraith, Augher, — Lord Abercorn's borough. 

43. H. D. Grady, Limerick, Chairman of the County Sessions. 

44. Richard Hare, Athy. 

45. William Hare, Athy, 

46. B. Henniker, Kildare, Major-General in the Army, and 

Colonel of 9th Dragoons. 

47. P Holmes, Donneraile, Commissioner of Stamps. 

48. Hon. F. Hutchinson, Naas. 

49. Hon. General Hutchinson, Cork City. 

50. Hu. Howard, St. Johristown, Treasurer to the Post Office. 

51. George Jackson, County Mayo, Colonel of Militia. 

52. Denh. Jephson, Jfalfow, a Pensioner on the Civil List, 

£600 per annum during pleasure. 

53. H. J. Jocelyn, Dundalk, Port Surveyor, Belfast. 

54. R. Johnson, Hillsborough, Counsel to the Commissioners of 

Revenue. 

55. William Jones, Colera'uie, Colonel of Leitrim Militia, and 

Officer in Custom House. 

56. Theo. Jones, County Leitrim, Privy Councillor, Collector 

of Customs in the port of Dublin. 

57. Tho. Kavanagh, City Kilkenny. 

58. John Keane, Youghall, Major of Militia. 

59. James Kearny, Thomastovn. 

60. H. Kemmis, Tralee, son to the Crown Solicitor. 

61. William Knott, Taghmon, a Commissioner of Appeals. 

62. James Knox, Taghmon. 

63. Right Hon. Sir H. Langrishe, Knocktopher. a Privy 

Councillor, and Commissioner of Revenue. 

64. T. Lindsay, sen., Castlebar. 

65. T. Lindsay, jim., Castlebar, Gentleman Usher of the Black 

Rod and Receiver of Stamps. 

66. Mont. Longfield, City Cork, Colonel of Militia. 

67. John Longfield, Ballinakill, a Captain in the Army. 
G8. J. Longfield, Mallov:, place in Cork Revenue. 

.69. F. M'Nemara, Killybegs, Comptroller of Dinsle and 
Colonel late 121st Foot. 

70. Ross Mahon. Granard. 

71. Richard Martin, Lanesborough. 

72. Right Hon. J. M. Mason, St. Canice, a Privy Councillor. 

and a Lord of the Treasury. 

73. H. D. Massey, County Clare. 

74. J. M'Cleland, Randal' *t own. 

75. E. A. M'Naghten, County Antrim. 

76. Right Hon. John Toler, Corey, a Privy Councillor and 

Attorney-General. 

7 7. L. Moore, Ardfert, Ranger of the Curragh. 

78. S. Moore, Hells, Governor of the county Tipperary, Comp- 
troller, and Accountant-General. 



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70. Right Hon. Lodge Morres, Dingle, Privy Councillor and 
Lord of the Treasury. 

80. Sir R, Musgrave, Lismore. 

81. T. Nesbit, Cavan, Colonel in the Army and a Pensioner. 

82. Sir W. G. Newcomen, County Longford. 

83. William Oclell, County Limerick, a Lieut. -Colonel in the 

Militia. 

84. C. M. Ormsby, Duleek, Recorder of Athlone. 

85. Charles Osborne, Carysfort, Counsel to the Commissioners 

of Revenue. 

86. Hon. T. Packenhain, Longford, Captain in the Navy, 

Lieutenant-General in the Ordnance, and Colonel of 
Marines. 

87. Sir Boyle Roche, Old Leighlin, Gentleman Usher and 

Master of Ceremonies, Dublin Castle. 

88. R. Rutledge, Dideek. 

89. Sir George Shee, Ilnocktopher, Surveyor General of 

Ordnance, Dublin Castle. 

90. Hon. H. Skeffington, Antrim, Governor of Cork Garrison. 

91. W. Smith, County Donegal, son of Baron Smith, Exchequer. 

92. H. M. Sandford, Roscommon. 

93. Ed. Stanley, Lanesborough, Sergeant at-law. 

94. J. Staples, County Antrim, ditto. Examinator of Customs. 

95. John Stewart, Bangor, Solicitor-general. 

96. John Stratton, Dundalk. 

97. P. Tottenham, Clonmines, Captain in the Wexford Militia. 

98. J. Townsend, Castlemartyr, Commissioner of Barracks. 

99. C. Tottenham, New Boss, Collector of that Port. 

100. F. Trench, (Woodlawn,) Portarlington. 

101. Earl Tyrone, County Londonderry, a Colonel of Militia. 

102. R. Uniacke, Youghal, Lieut.-Colonel in Waterford Militia. 

103. J. O. Yandeleur, Ennis. 

104. J. Verner, Duncamion. 

105. J. Wemys, City of Kilkenny, Seneschal of Manors, and 

Colonel of Militia. 

106. H. Westenra, Monaghan, a Placeman. 

107. T. Whately, Enniscorthy. 

108. B. Woodward, Midleton. 

109. W. Yelverton, Tuam. 

Total on second night, 106. 

Majority against an Union. 
Right Hon. John Foster, Speaker. — An avowed opponent 
of a Legislative Union between Great Britain and 
Ireland. 

1. Hon. A. Acheson,* Armagh. 

2. W. C.,* City of Waterford. 

* Marked thus have £4,000 per annum, or upwards, in landed property, or 
are heirs apparent to it. 



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3. M. Archdall,* County Fermanagh, Colonel on the Half- 

pay, and Governor of the County. 

4. David Babbington, Ballyshannon. 

5. J. Bagwell,* County Tipjoerary, Commandant of the County 

Militia. 

6. Win. Bagwell,* Rathcormick, Captain in same Regiment. 

7. J. Ball, County and Town of Drogheda. 

8. Jonah Barrington, Clogher, Judge of the Admiralty. 

9. J. C. Beresford, City Dublin, Keeper of the Stores, Custom 

House. 

10. A. Browne, Trinity College. 

11. W. Burton,* County Carlow, Governor of County. 

12. R. Crowe, Philip' stoum. 

13. Lord Corry,* County Tyrone Colonel, Tyrone Regiment. 

1 4. Lord Clements,* County Leitrim, ditto, Donegal Regiment. 

15. Lord Cole,* County Fermanagh. 

16. Hon. G. L. Cole, Enniskillen, Lieut. -Colonel in the Army. 

17. George Crookshank, Belfast. 

18. Hon. A. Creighton, Lifford, Registrar of Forfeitures. 

19. Hon. J. Creighton, Lifford, a Major. 

20. J. E. Cooper,* County Sligo. 

21. J. Cane, Ratoath. 

22. Lord Caulfield,* County Armayh. 

23. Henry Coddington, Dunleer. 

24. D. B. Daly,* King's County. 

25. R. Dawson,* County Monaghan. 

26. A. Dawson,* Banagher. 

27. F. Dobbs, Charlemont, 

28. R. L. Edgworth, St. John'stown. 

29. John Egan, Tallagh, Chairman of Kilmainham. 

30. George Evans, Baltimore. 

31. Sir John Freke,* ditto. 

32. Frederick J. Falkiner, County Dublin. 

33. Right Hon. J. Fitzgerald,* Kildare, Prime Sergeant fifteen 

years, dismissed. 

34. William C. Fortescue,* County Louth. 

35. Hon. T. Foster,* Dunleer, Commissioner of Revenue, and 

Commandant of Louth Militia. 

36. A. French,* County Roscommon. 

37. W. Gore, Carrick. 

38. Ham. Gorges,* County Meath. 

39. Hans Hamilton,* County Dublin. 

40. William Handcock,* Athlone, Colonel of a Fencible Regi- 

ment. 

41. Ed. Hardman, Drogheda. 

42. F. Hardy, Mullingar. 

43. Sir J. Hoare, Askeyton. 

44. A. Hamilton,* Belfast, Cursitor in Chancery. 

* See note on page 369. 



371 

45. Hon. A. C. Hamilton, Enniskillen, Major Tyrone Militia, 

and Em. Barrack Board. 

46. Sir F. Hopkins, Kilbeggan. 

47. G. King, James' town. 

48. Charles King, Belturbet. 

49. John King, JamesHown. 

50. Hon. Robert King, Boyle. 

51. Lord Kingsborough,* County Roscommon, a Privy Coun- 

cillor, and Governor of the County. 

52. Hon. G. Knox, Trinity College, a Commissioner of 

Revenue, since dismissed. 

53. F. Knox, Phillip 'stown. 

54. Right Hon. Henry King,* Boyle, Governor of county 

Sligo, Lieut. -Colonel of Militia, and a Privy Councillor. 

55. D. Latouche,* jun., Newcastle, Colonel Carlow Regiment. 

56. John Latouche,* County Kildare. 

57. John Latouche, jun., Harristown. 

58. Robert Latouche,* do. 

59. Charles Leslie,* County Monaghan. 

60. Edward Lee, Dungarvan. 

61. Sir T. Lighton,* Carlingford. 

62. Alex. Montgomery, County Donegal. 

63. Sir J. Macartney, Naas. 

64. J. Maxwell,* Newtown Limavady, Colonel of Cavan Militia. 

65. W. T. Monsell, Dingle, Lieut. -Colonel 2nd Fen. Lt. Dragoons, 

Lord Glenworth's. 

66. Arthur Moore, Tralee. 

67. Lord Matthew,* County Tipper ary. 

68. John Metge, Tallagh. 

69. Richard Neville,* Wexford, Commissioner of Accounts. 

70. Thomas Newenham, Clonmell. 

71. Charles O'Hara, County Sligo, Governor of the county. 

72. Hen. Osborne, Carysfort. 

73. Sir Edward O'Brien,* Ennis. 

74. H. O'Donnell,* Donegal, a Colonel in the Army. 

75. J. M. O'Donnell, Ratoath. 

76. Hon. W. O'Callaghan, Bandon Bridge. 

77. Rt. Hon. G. Ogle, City Dublin, Privy Councillor, first 

Registrar of Deeds, and Governor of the county Wexford. 

78. J. Preston,* Navan. 

79. John Preston, do. 

80. Sir J. Parnell,* Queen's County, late Chancellor of the 

Exchequer — dismissed. 

81. Wm, Plunket, Charlemont. 

82. Rt. Hon. Wm. B. Ponsonby,* County Kilkenny. 

83. W. Ponsonby, Fethard, a Major in the Army. 

84. George Ponsonby, Gahvay. 

85. Sir Laurence Parsons,* King's County, and Governor of 

the county. 

* See note on page 369. 



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86. R. Power, County Waterford, 

87. A. Ram, county Wexford* Lieut. -Colonel Wexford Militia. 

88. J. Rochford, County Westmeath. 

89. Gust. Rochford,* do. 

90. Sir W. Richardson, Ballyshannon. 

91. Wm. Ruxton, Ardee. 

92. F. Saunderson. County Cavan. 

93. W. Smyth, County Westmeath* 

94. J. Stewart, County Tyrone* 

95. H. Stewait, Longford, Accountant General to the Post 

Office. 

96. Sir R. St. George, Athlone. 

97. Hon. B. Stratford, Baltinglass, Governor of the county 

Wicklow, and Captain of the Baltinglass Cavalry. 

98. Hon. Barry St. Leger, Donneraile, Major of South Cork 

Militia. 

99. Nat. Sneyd, Carrick. 

100. Hon. W. J. Skemngton, Antrim, Keeper of the Tower. 

101. Francis Savage, County Down, Captain in Down Militia. 

102. T. Stannus, Portarlington. 

103. W. Tighe, Innistioge* 

104. Henry Tighe, Innistioge. 

105. Hon. Richard Trench,* Gal way. 

106. John Taylor, Fethard. 

107. Hon. R. Taylor, Kelts, Major-General. 

108. Thomas Townsend, Belturbet. 

109. Chas. Vereker,* City Limerick, Colonel Limerick Regiment, 

110. Owen Wynne,* Sligo. 

111. John Waller,* County Limerick. 

112. E. D. Wilson, Carrickfergus. 

Total on second night, 111. 



APPENDIX X. 

List of Fermanagh Lands not being Church Lands sold in 1851, 

Largy. Drumderg. 

Mullyknock or Topped Mount- Modena. 

ain otherwise Glasdrumman. Inisleague Island. 
Tyralton. 



APPENDIX Y. 

List of Tyrone Lands sold in the Incumbered Estates Court 
in 1852 and 1853. 

1. Aghenis. 4. Aghadarra, olios Athee. 

2. Alteshane. 5. Arvalee. 

3. Aghadarra. 6. Aghagallon. 

* See note on page 36^. 



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7. Aghy. 

8. Ballybuoy. 

9. Belox. 

10. Back Eden and Back Eden 

Mill. 

11. Bradkeel. 

12. Ballynahatty and Eder- 

gold. 

13. Bryn. 

14. Cornabracken. 

15. Carrickayne. 

16. Curr. 

17. Campsy. 

18. Crevanagh. 

19. Cranny. 

20. CornamucklaghandBighy. 

21. Corbally. 

22. Carnalea. 

23. Corlaglidergan. 

24. Camderry and Goland. 

25. Corryharky. 

26. Cavanamore. 

27. Corraghamulkin. 

28. Callow. 

29. Drurngrane. 

30. Drumhirk. 

31. Drumsera. 

32. Downaree. 

33. Druminey. 

*34. Drumard, alias Drumarett. 

35. Devarney. 

36. Drumsheil. 

37. Drumlish. 

38. Derrynaseer. 

39. Dressoge. 

40. Edenfogary. 

41. Esker. 

42. Edenderry. 

43. Fallaghern. 



44. Eartaghmore. 

45. Gortnagullen. 

46. Galbally. 

47. Garvagh. 

48. Glengeen. 

49. Grennan. 

50. Garvaghy. 

51. Gortaclare. 

52. Glenchiel and Menaorane. 

53. Killy given. 

54. Killymoonan. 

55. Knocknaliorn. 

56. Knockaraven. 

57. Kiladroy. 

58. Loughmacnab, about 8 

acres of. 

59. Lisduff. 

60. Legfreshy. 

61. Lisanedin. 

62. Lisacoppin. 

63. Landahussy. 

64. Maltenatumey. 

65. Minishroghen. 

66. Mullaghmore. 

67. Moneygar (Minegar). 

68. Oghill. 

69. Onghtdoorish. 

70. Bakeeranbeg. 

71. Rahawney. 

72. Becarson. 

73. Rossrey. 

74. Tullynecolpin. 

75. Tullygiven. 

76. Tattysallagli. 

77. Tattymulmona. 

78. Tatty cor. 

79. Tullyclunagh. 

80. Tattykeel. 



* In the old lists were (1) Drumarett, (2) Drumarett E., (3) Drumarett W. 
All these have heen sold, whether included under the head of Drumard or not. 



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APPENDIX Z. 

A List of various private and public Works, &c., at or near 
Castlecoole Demense, with approximate Dates. 

Approximate 
Dates. 

The original house built between 1611-19; burnt 

1641; burnt again 1689. 
The large deer park made before . . . 1709 

The last mansion house plans, dated . . 1709 

The beech trees in Beech- walk planted probably from 1710-15 
Various improvements as shown on the manor map of 1723 
The old fish pond and the terrace partly round Coney- 
burrow wood made, and the beech trees there, and 
the Rookery Hill, planted prior to . . 1752 

The road round Loughcoole was in existence in Mr. 
Armar's time. From memoranda and plans, he 
appears to have made the road thence to the 
White Hill, and a " blow house " at Castlecoole. 
The bowling green, and the old garden adjoining, 
the walks of which can still be traced, must have 
been made in his time, as they are not shown on 
the map of 1723, but appear on that supposed to 
have been made in or about 1783. No exact dates 
can be assigned. Mr. Armar's also probably took 
the White Hill, the Curragh, and Clover Hills, 
and the Red Meadow into Castlecoole Demense, 
and planted the old screen, the trees of only a 
portion of which now remain. The oak plantation 
running down between Clover Hill and Kitty's 
Field, must be of a later date. 
The Dublin-road diverted from its original course, 
(passing the end of the Oak avenue, and so on to 
Casey' s-cross), to the shores of Lough Yoan, from 
the point where the two old Enniskillen gate 
lodges stand, to the top of the hill in Glasmullagh 1783 
There are two large demense maps at Castlecoole. 
One showing the demense as it was before, and 
more or less after the alterations, with some writing 
on it in pencil by the first Lord Belmore, indicates 
pretty well what was actually done. The other map 
is a fanciful one, never carried into effect . . 1783 

The levelling the ground for the present house of 

Castlecoole begun in May . . . 1788 

The old house burnt . . . .1797 

The new house finished . . . .1798 

The canal and garden made by . . .1798 

Drumcrin wood planted, supposed about . . 1805 

The present mail coach road to Dublin made . 1813 



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Approximate 
Dates. 

Slee Hill, &c., planted . . . .1813-4 

The stables and farmyard at Castlecoole built . 1818 

The present Dublin approach made between 1829-35 

The walk at the top of the hill in front of the house 

made . . . . . .1839 

Bonnybrooke Wood planted . . . 1840-1 

The new walk by Lough Yoan made . .1841-2 

Killenure plantation .... 1843 

Derryvullen present church built . . . 1852-4. 

The greater part of Castlecoole, painted and the sky- 
lights re-glazed . . . . .1857 

Various drainage works . . . 1857-62 

The new Enniskillen approach . . 1857-60 

The new Enniskillen gate lodge built . . 1860 

The saw mill completed .... 1859 

The bog road made under the Board of Works . 1859 

The bog cottages built about . . .1859 

Threshing machine erected in connection with the 

sawmill ...... 1860 

Various alterations in the house and laundry, &c. . 1860 
The new public road to Tempo (partly begun in the 

famine time), made and completed . 1858-65 

^*^ This road was opened for traffic at the Enniskillen 

end as far as the top of Gar vary Hill in 1863. 
The Cavanacross-road, <fec, on to Garvary Church 

made about these years. 
Garvary Church begun 

„ ,, consecrated 

Garvary parsonage built 

Hurst's farm in Bonnybrooke taken into the demense 
Road in the horse parks made 

Five double cottages built in and about the demense 
Road round Coneyburrow wood made 
Clover-Hill road made 
Derryvullan parsonage built 
Coneyburrow Meadow road made by degrees — com 

pleted in . 
The Thomastown Hill cut . 
The Red Meadow-road made 
The White Hill-road made leading to the last 
Do. carried on towards the mill race 
The entrance to the demense at Townsend's gate lodge 

improved .... 

Works in Tyroxe. 



Beragh police barracks built 
Sixmilecross parsonage house built 
Sixmilecross schools built 



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THE MANOR OF FINAGH 

AND 

THE ADVOWSON OF TERMONMAGUIKK. 

The following is abbreviated from a Statement of Title 
submitted in 1828, on behalf of Trinity College, Dublin, 
for the opinion of the Rt. Hon. William Saurin, prior to the 
purchase by it of the Advowson of Clogherny, which, in all 
family deeds, had still retained its ancient name of the 
moiety of the Advowson of Termonmaguirke. 

1611. — 9th Jas. I. — By Grant of this date, King James I. granted 
by his Letters Patent, the Great Proportion of Fynagh and the 
Advowson of Termonmaguirke, to Sir George Tuckett, Lord 
Audley, and Lady Elizabeth, his wife, and the heirs of their 
bodies, or for want of such hens, to Lady Elizabeth and her heirs 
for ever. 

1619. — Lord Audley afterwards became Earl of Castlehaven, 
and died previously to 1619; and his widow, Lady Elizabeth, 
remarried, in or about 1619, Sir Piers Crosbie, Kt. ; who also 
died in or about 1648 without having had any issue by the said 
Lady Elizabeth. It appears that the lands and advowson so 
granted, afterwards became the property of Sir William Usher. 
Kt., by purchase or otherwise ; and on the Crown rent roll, Sir 
Piers Crosbie appears as tenant of the same during the period in 
which he was the husband to the said Lady Elizabeth, and up to 
1638, when Sir Wm. Usher appears as tenant, at the same rent 
as had been charged to Sir Piers Crosbie. 

1662. — Upon search in the Auditor-General's Office, it appeal's 
that the Lady Elizabeth, Countess of Castlehaven, presented a peti- 
tion to the Court of Claims, in the year 1662, stating the original 
grant, and the death of both her husbands, and praying to be restored 
to such rights as she and Sir Piers had in 1641, being innocent 
Protestants. A decree was made accordingly, restoring her to such 
rights as she had previously to 1641. The Grant of James I. gave 
several other lands and advowsons in counties other than Tyrone, 
which Lady Elizabeth was in possession of subsequently to this 
decree : for in 1666, she presented a petition relative to certain 
increased quit rents charged against certain lands in the county 
Armagh granted by that Patent, and a decree was made substitut- 
ing the rents reserved under that Patent. 

1672, 3rd February. — By a deed of this date, John Lusher 
(son of Sir William) did grant, enfeoff and confirm to Hugh 
Lord Baron of Glenawley, for the sum of £3,400, the Manor "of 
Eynagh, and the advowson of Termonmaguirk, county Tyrone. 

In 1629, King Charles I. granted to Archibald Hamilton (Bishop 
of Killala, in the next year Archbishop of Cashel) the Manor of 
Moiener county Tyrone. About 1660, his son Hugh became 



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Lord Baron of Glenawley, and married Susanna, daughter of Sir 
William Balfour. He made his will, dated 19ch February, 1676, 
and devised his estates to his only son William Hamilton, and 
his heirs ; with remainder to his daughters, Arabella Susanna, 
and Nicola Sophia, and their heirs, to be equally divided between 
them. 

1678. — Probate of this will was granted in 1678, so that Lord 
G-lenawley must have died between 1676 and 1678. 

On his death, his son, William Hamilton, succeeded, who died 
a minor and unmarried. The title thereupon became extinct, 
and his two sisters succeeded to the estates under the limitations 
of their father's will. 

1695, 26 June. — Arabella Susanna married Sir John Magill, 
and Nicola Sophia married Sir Tristram Beresford ; and in 
Easter term 1695, Arabella and Sir John Magill, and Nicola 
and Sir Tristram Beresford, levied a fine of the Manors of Moiener 
and Fynagh, and a deed of the date in the margin was executed 
between the parties, declaring the uses of the fine, and making a 
partition of the estates ; by which it was agreed that Fynagh 
should be and was thereby granted to Arabella Susanna and her 
heirs for ever, and Moiener to Nicola Sophia. The advowsons 
were by the first deed excepted from the partition, and the parties 
were to present in turns. 

[The lands of Upper and Lower Cloghfin, Ballykeele, Aghnagar 
and Eskermore, part of the Manor of Fynagh, were by these deeds 
granted to Nicola, to equalize her share, but were to remain sub- 
ject to the Manor of Fynagh. The other advowson mentioned 
was probably that of Drumully, co. Fermanagh.] 

1700, April 30. — By deed of this date made previous to the 
second marriage of Arabella Susannah with Lord Viscount Dun- 
gannon, it was recited inter alia, that she was seized in fee of the 
Manor of Fynagh, and of the moiety of the advowson of Termon- 
maguirk, and of the moiety of that of Drumully, co. Fermanagh. 
The intended marriage was recited, and she granted to Thomas 
Lord Baron of Howth, Blaney Townley, and Robert King, the 
Manor of Finagh and her right to the moiety of the advowson of 
Termonmaguirk, to hold to the said trustees and their heirs upon 
trust, to pay an annuity of £700 a year to her the said Arabella 
Susanna, and that she should have power to contract for the 
sale, or to dispose of the same as she should think proper by deed 
or will, and that the trustees should make and perfect all such 
conveyances as she should direct. 

Nicola Lady Beresford had issue by Sir Tristram a son, Marcus, 
who became Viscount Tyrone, to whom at her death the moiety 
of the advowson of Termonmaguirk passed ; she not having exer- 
cised the right of disposal of it, as she did of the Manor of Moyener 
(or Ballygawley), which passed to the Gorges family, on the 
second marriage of Lady Beresford with General Richard Gorges. 
It remained in the Gorges family till 1811, when, under a decree 
of the Court of Chancery to discharge incumbrances, the Manor 

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of Moyener was sold to Sir John Stewart, bart., formerly Attorney- 
General for Ireland, for a large sum of money. The deed of par- 
tition of 1695 appears not to have been forthcoming on that 
occasion, but in its absence the title appeared so clear to Mr. 
Sergeant Ball, Dr. Radcliffe, and other eminent counsel, that Sir 
John completed the purchase. 

1705, January 31. — By lease and release of this date, made 
between Viscount and Viscountess Dungannon, Lord Howth, 
Blayney Townley of Acclare, county Louth, esq., and Robert King, 
of the city of Dublin, gent., of the one part, and Robert Lowry, of 
Aghenis,in the county Tyrone, esq., of the other part, reciting that by 
deed of bargain and sale, and release, dated respectively the 29th and 
30th April, 17 00, between the said Lady Viscountess when she was a 
widow, and before her marriage with Viscount Dungannon, and 
by his consent, of the one part, and Lord Howth, Blaney Townley. 
and Robert King of the other part, she conveyed the Manor of 
Finagh alias Sixmilecross, and the moiety of the advowson of 
Termonmaguirk (except certain lands stated part of the said 
Manor) to Lord Howth, Blaney Townley, and Robert Bang, and 
their heirs, subject to the several trusts therein, and amongst 
others that she the said Lady Dungannon should have full power 
to sell, mortgage, or otherwise encumber the said lands, and 
reciting that by deeds of bargain, and sale, and release, dated re- 
spectively the 21st and 22nd March, 1700, between Lord and 
Lady Dungannon, Thomas Lord Baron Howth, Blaney Townley, 
and Robert King, by direction of the said Lord Viscount and Lady 
Viscountess, and in consideration of the sum of £4,000 then to 
be paid to the said Lady Dungannon, and 10s. to the said Lord 
Howth, Blaney Townley, and Robert King, they the said Lord 
Howth, Blaney Townley, and Robert King granted and conveyed 
the manor and premises aforesaid with the appurtenances (except 
as before excepted) to Joseph Damer, of Dublin, gent, and his 
heirs, subject to redemption on repayment of the =£4,000, with 
interest. And also reciting that by deed of bargain and sale, 
dated the 12th and 13th January, 1701, the said Lord and Lady 
Dungannon, together with the said trustees, in consideration of a 
further sum of £500, conveyed all the said before mentioned lands, 
with others in the county of Down, to the said Joseph Damer and 
his heirs, subject to redemption as before. And further reciting 
that the said Lady Dungannon was indebted to the said Joseph 
Damer in the further sum of £350, secured to him by two 
judgments obtained in the Court of Common Pleas, against Lord 
Dungannon and Nicola Sophia, Lady Beresford, each for £700 and 
and costs, and that £650 was due to the said Joseph Damer for 
interest of the said several sums. And reciting that Lord and 
Lady Dungannon, wishing to pay off the said sums, agreed to sell 
the Manor of Fynagh (except the lands therein excepted), and 
the right of presentation to the moiety of the advowson of 
Termonmaguirk, to Robert Lowry and his heirs, freed from all 
provisoes of redemption aforesaid, in consideration of the further 



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sum of £115. He, Robert Lowry, was to pay all the money so 
due to Joseph Darner, and save harmless and indemnify Lord 
and Lady Dungannon of and from the same : and the said deeds 
of mortgage before mentioned, wherein were included the mills 
and lands in the county Down, were to be delivered to the said 
Lord and Lady Dungannon to be cancelled, and the lands, together 
with the moiety of the advowson of the parish of Drummully, all 
in the county of Fermanagh, were to be freed from the said mort- 
gage money of £4,000 and £500, and also from the said judgments 
before mentioned. The said deed further witnessed that Lady 
Dungannon, in pursuance of the before recited power, did appoint 
Lord Howth, Blayney Townley, and Robert King to convey the 
Manor of Finagh and the lands and premises thereto belonging 
(except as before excepted) to Robert Lowry and his heirs, dis- 
charged from any condition and equity of redemption, for the 
consideration therein mentioned, in pursuance of the said trusts ; 
and, by the direction of Lady, and consent of Lord Dungannon, 
the said trustees did grant to Robert Lowry (in his actual posses- 
sion then being), and to his heirs, all the lands therein men- 
tioned, and also the right of presentation to the moiety of the 
advowson of Termonmaguirk. To hold to him and his heirs for 
ever. The usual lease for a year was at the same time executed. 

This deed was indorsed (on the 5th February), by Lord and Lady 
Dungannon, that they had received full satisfaction from Mr. 
Lowry, who had procured sufficient discharges to them from Mr. 
Darner, and had delivered up the securities, and got satisfaction 
entered on the record of judgment of £700 and £700, and had 
paid them £115. 

1705, Hilary. — A fine was accordingly, pursuant to the coven- 
ant in the foregoing in part recited deed, duly levied by Lord and 
Lady Dungannon, as of Hilary Term, 1705. 

{Copy sent in 1728 to Counsel). 

1724, September 10. — By settlement of this date made on the 
intermarriage of Robert Lowry, eldest [surviving] son and heir of 
Robert Lowry, of Aghenis, with Miss Katherine Dopping 
[daughter of the Dean of Clonmacnoise], the said Robert Lowry 
the elder, granted to Hugh Howard and Alexander M'Clintock, 
and to their heirs, the manor of Finagh (except the before excepted 
lands), and the presentation to the moiety of the advowson of Ter- 
monmaguirk, upon the visual trusts, viz., to the use of Robert 
Lowry, senior, for life without impeachment of waste, and after his 
death to the use of Robert Lowry, junior, for life without impeach- 
ment of waste, and after that estate to the trustees and their heirs for 
the life of Robert the younger, to preserve contingent remainders, 
but to permit Robert and his assigns to take the rents and profits. 
If Catherine survived Robert, her intended husband, she was in 
that case to receive an annuity in lieu of dower of £250, to be 
increased by £50 a year in case there should be no issue of the 
marriage. And also concerning the rest of the said lands and 
premises, from and after the death of Robert Lowry the elder, and 



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Robert Lowry the younger and of the survivor, to the use of Arthur 
Weldon and Daniel Eccles, &c, for the full term of 200 years in 
trust, for the sons of Robert Lowry and Catherine Dopping succes- 
sively, with like remainders to Galbraith and James Lowry, the 
second and third [surviving] sons of Robert Lowry the elder. 

Robert the younger, became seized of the lands so settled, and 
of the moiety of the advowson. 

1732, 29th March. — By a deed between Marcus, Lord Viscount 
Tyrone, and Robert Lowry, esq., described as of Loughmacnab, 
co. Tyrone, made in pursuance of Articles of Agreement dated 
2nd April, 1731, it was agreed between the said parties to divide 
the parish of Ternionmaguirk ; and to apply to the Chief Governor 
or Governors of Ireland, with the consent of the Privy Council, 
and with the approbation of the Lord Primate, and consent of the 
Rev. Charles d'Este, Archdeacon of Armagh, Incumbent of the 
said parish, to confirm such division. This deed was endorsed on 
the back by the remaindermen, Galbraith and James Lowtv, to 
signify their consent and confirmation of the said division. Robert 
Lowry was to have the presentation to the moiety of the parish 
known as Clogherny, Lord Tyrone having that retaining the old 
name of Ternionmaguirk. 

1732, May 13th. — An Act of Council of this date, passed by 
the Lords Justices and Privy Council, divided the aforesaid parish 
into two equal parts. In the Act of Council the said endorsement 
is recited to be on the back of the said deed of 29th March, 1732, 
giving such consent and confirmation. 

1764. Robert Lowry died without issue [by either Catherine Dop- 
ping or a subsequent wife, Miss Hamilton] in 1764, and thereupon 
the trusts of his marriage settlement became extinguished, and 
his next brother, Galbraith Lowry, became seized of an estate 
for life in possession, and his son Armar Lowry (the first Earl 
Belmore), of an estate in remainder in the manor of Finagh ; 
and also entitled to a moiety of the advowson of Termonmaguirk. 

1765, May 16th. — An indented deed of this date was made 
between Galbraith Lowry (then called Galbraith Lowry Corry) of 
the first part, Armar Lowry (by the name of Armar Lowry 
Corry), his son and heir apparent, of the second part, Redmond 
Kane of the third part, Charles King, gentleman, of the fourth 
part, and Thomas Gledstanes of the fifth part, reciting the mar- 
riage settlement of Robert Lowry, the younger, of the 10th Sep- 
tember, 1724, and that the said marriage took effect ; and the 
death of Robert Lowry the elder, in 1729, and that Robert Lowry 
the younger had died without issue, and that the lands of Finagh 
became vested in Galbraith Lowry Corry, by virtue of the limita- 
tions of the said deed of release, and that Armar Lowry Corry 
was the only son of the said Galbraith, in whom the estate tail 
was then vested to the said estate of Finagh, otherwise the Six- 
milecross Estate, and other recitals ; and the said Galbraith and 
Armar by this deed made Redmond Kane tenant to the freehold 
of the said manor land and premises called the Sixmilecross or 






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Finagh Estate, and of the said moiety of the advowson, in order 
that a common recovery might be suffered. 

The use of which recovery when suffered was declared to be 
and enure to the use of Thomas Gledstanes, &c, for the term of 
500 years. 

To the use of Galbraith for life without impeachment of waste ; 
remainder to Armar and the heirs male of his body ; remainder 
to Galbraith and his heirs and assigns for ever. 

Power was reserved to encumber the said lands, and to raise 
such sums of money as they should think proper, and to charge 
them with a jointure for the wife or wives of Armar, and with 
portions for his younger children. Galbraith and Armar jointly, 
but not separately, during their joint lives, and Armar solely 
after Galbraith's death (if he should survive him), might change 
and revoke and make void all the uses in the said deed, and limit 
and appoint other uses. 

1765, Trinity Term. — A common recovery was accordingly 
suffered of said lands and advowson. 

1770, June 20th and 21st. — The said Armar Lowry Corry, after 
the death of his father, by deeds of lease and release of this date 
made between said Armar of the first part, the said Redmond 
Kane of the second part, and the said Charles King of 
the third part, pursuant to the covenants and powers of 
revocation contained in the said deeds 1761 and 1765, and 
to make the said Redmond Kane tenant to the freehold of the 
said moiety of the said advowson, and of all the said manor, &c, 
so comprised in the deeds of 1724 and 1765 (and of other lands 
in Tyrone, devised by the will of Robert Lowry the elder*), and of 
lands comprised in the deed of 1761, revoked and made void the 
uses contained in the said deeds of 1761 and 1765, and for more 
effectually barring and destroying the said limitations and uses, 
and all estates tail, did grant and convey to the said Edmond 
Kane, the moiety of the advowson and the lands comprised in the 
deeds of 1724 and 1765, to hold the same until two or more good 
and perfect common recovery or recoveries for assurance of lands 
should be suffered, which when suffered, should be and enure to 
and for the only use of Armar Lowry Corry, his heirs and assigns 
for ever, and for no other use. [The deed of 1761 referred to, not 
quoted.] 

1770, Trinity Term. — A common recovery was accordingly 
suffered of said lands in county Tyrone, comprised in said deeds. 

1771, October 7th. — Armar Lowry Corry, previous to his 
marriage with his first wife, Lady Margaret Butler (Sarah his 
mother then living), by deed of this date, granted to Abraham 
Lord Erne and Margetson Armar, and their heirs, certain deno- 
minations of the Sixmilecross estate, with other lands, on the 
trusts therein mentioned " which it is not considered material 
here to go through, as not bearing on the present question, inas- 

* The lands referred to must have been those devised by Robert Lowry, senior, 
to Galbraith Lowry , by his will. 



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much as the said advowson is not mentioned. The copy of this 
deed is, however, sent." 

The said marriage was duly solemnized, and there was issue 
thereof* one son (the second Earl), 'and several other children (two), 
but all of whom died infants, and none of them more than a few 
days old at their respective deaths. This deed was registered 1 9th 
October, 1771. 

Lady Margaret afterwards died, so the jointure intended for 
her ladyship, and the trust term of 3,000 years, there being no 
younger children of the marriage, merged 

1795, Michaelmas Term. — The Hon. Somerset Lowry Corry 
(afterwards the second Earl) having attained his majority, he and 
his father joined in levying fines and suffering recoveries of the 
Manors, &c, and of the moiety of the advowson of Termonmaguirk, 
whereof the first Earl was then seized, with remainder in tail to 
the second Earl. 

1795, Nov. 23rd. — By deed of this date made between Armar 
Viscount Belmore, and his eldest son and heir apparent, the Hon. 
Somerset Lowry Corry, of the first part : Charles King and John 
M'Clintock, esqrs., of the second part, and Thomas Earl of 
Carrick, and Edward Earl of Kilkenny, of the third part, Lord 
Belmore and Mr. Corry resettled the manors, Ac., in the counties 
of Fermanagh and Tyrone. By this settlement the said lands 
stood limited to Lord Belmore for life, with remainder to his son 
for life, with remainder to his issue in tail male, in strict settle- 
ment, with jointuring powers, and power of charging portions for 
younger children of Mr. Corry. Lord Belmore and Mr. Corry 
might during their lives annul or vary this deed. 

1880, 20th October. — Previous to the marriage of Somerset 
Viscoimt Corry, with Lady Juliana Butler, second daughter of 
Henry Thomas Earl of Carrick, a settlement was entered into 
between Lord Belmore and Lord Corry of the first part, the Earl 
of Carrick and Lady Juliana Butler of the second part, Robert 
Lowry and Blaney Townley Balfour of the third part, Viscount 
Cole and Viscount Ikerin of the fourth part, and Owen Wynne, 
esq., and the Rev. Henry Maxwell of the fifth part. In this the 
uses of the deed of 1795 were revoked. 

Three thousand poimds a year was settled on Lord Corry, during 
his father's life, and a jointure of .£1,000 a year settled on Lady 
Juliana, should she survive her husband. The estates were settled 
to the use of Lord Belmore for life, with remainder to Lord Corry 
for life ; with remainder to trustees to preserve contingent 
remainders. 

It is stated that there had not been found amongst Lord 
Belmore's papers any actual re-conveyance of the mortgage to 
Darner, but it was submitted that the advowson was not affected 
thereby. A deed of the 26th June, 1706, whereby Mr. Darner, 
together with Messrs. Bell and Martin who were, as executors of 
Andrew Smith, with Darner interested in the mortgage, as owners 

* Sic in orig. But one of the two other children was a son and the heir. 



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of £2,000 out of the £4,000, assigned their interest to one Mr. 
Keas, junior, of Aghenis (who may perhajis ha,ve been a connexion 
of Mr. Lowry's and a trustee for him) ; together with a deed dated 
2nd February, 1705, by which Lord and Lady Dungannon and 
Mr. Darner assigned all arrears of rent since 1703 to Robert 
Lowry ; and another deed of the 4th February between Damer, 
Thomas Bell, and James Martin, and Oliver M'Causland and 
Robert Lowry, appear not to have been produced with reference 
to this statement of title. A fine and recovery by Lord and Lady 
Belmore in which Lord Corry, the tenant in tail, would join, had 
been prepared. Mr. Henry Corry, the only younger child of the 
marriage who was entitled under the settlement of 1800 to a 
portion of £20,000 Irish, was ready to release all claim on the 
advowson, and to join in the conveyance. 



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